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Dawn LAMO Image 30

Dawn LAMO Image 30
Photojournal: PIA20384
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 19, 2016

This scene from Ceres, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows an older crater (at top center) that has been blanketed by impact ejecta from the younger crater to its right.

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