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Dawn LAMO Image 138

Dawn LAMO Image 138
Photojournal: PIA20858
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 28, 2016
The scene shows a complex of craters in mid-southern latitudes on Ceres, just west of the peaks known as Niman Rupes. NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 15, 2016.

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