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Ahuna Mons Seen from LAMO

Ahuna Mons Seen from LAMO
Photojournal: PIA20348
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: March 7, 2016

Ceres' mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken in December 2015.

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