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Dawn LAMO Image 56

Dawn LAMO Image 56
Photojournal: PIA20551
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 30, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a sinuous canyon in the southern hemisphere of Ceres, south of Yalode Crater.

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