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Dawn LAMO Image 128

Dawn LAMO Image 128
Photojournal: PIA20828
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 14, 2016

This image shows Sekhet Crater, at right, in a shadowy scene from Ceres. Sekhet is 25 miles wide (41 kilometers wide). NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 15, 2016. A smooth plain surrounds the smaller crater at left.

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