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Dawn LAMO Image 88

Dawn LAMO Image 88
Photojournal: PIA20668
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 13, 2016

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of Ceres shows a small, double-impact crater (at bottom) near a larger crater. The larger structure has a crater floor with roughly the same crater density.

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