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Dawn LAMO Image 137

Dawn LAMO Image 137
Photojournal: PIA20857
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 27, 2016
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 7, 2016, showing a small crater within the larger southern hemisphere crater named Mondamin on Ceres.

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