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Dawn LAMO Image 125

Dawn LAMO Image 125
Photojournal: PIA20825
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 7, 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on June 13, 2016, showing the limb of Ceres from above an equatorial region east of Kirnis Crater.

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