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Dawn LAMO Image 99

Dawn LAMO Image 99
Photojournal: PIA20679
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 31, 2016

This picture from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain on Ceres in which the rim of a more recent impact crater, at center, has partially collapsed into its adjacent neighbor, just below. Boulders are visible in and around the younger, smaller crater.

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