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Dawn LAMO Image 58

Dawn LAMO Image 58
Photojournal: PIA20553
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 1, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the rim of a crater near the south pole of Ceres, taken on Feb. 8, 2016.

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