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Ahuna Mons Perspective View

Ahuna Mons Perspective View
Photojournal: PIA20349
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: March 7, 2016

This side-perspective view of Ceres' mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons was made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images in December 2015.

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