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Dawn LAMO Image 91

Dawn LAMO Image 91
Photojournal: PIA20671
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 18, 2016

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the center of Datan Crater on Ceres. Datan measures about 40 miles (60 kilometers) in diameter.

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