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Dawn LAMO Image 36

Dawn LAMO Image 36
Photojournal: PIA20390
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 29, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows part of the crater named Sekhet on Ceres. Prominent shadows within the crater highlight Sekhet's central peak and mounds of material that have slumped downward from its walls.

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