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Dawn LAMO Image 41

Dawn LAMO Image 41
Photojournal: PIA20395
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 7, 2016

Heavily-shadowed craters in the northernmost latitudes of Ceres are seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken on Jan. 25, 2016.

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