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Dawn LAMO Image 29

Dawn LAMO Image 29
Photojournal: PIA20383
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 18, 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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