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Dawn LAMO Image 87

Dawn LAMO Image 87
Photojournal: PIA20667
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: May 12, 2016

This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the rim of Occator crater, just east of the area containing the brightest spots on Ceres. The crater rim has collapsed, leaving structures geologists refer to as terraces.

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