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Haulani Crater at LAMO

Haulani Crater at LAMO
Photojournal: PIA20359
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: April 19, 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took images of Haulani Crater at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface of Ceres.

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