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Dawn LAMO Image 24

Dawn LAMO Image 24
Photojournal: PIA20314
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 10, 2016

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the heavily cratered rim of an older, unnamed impact feature on Ceres. The crater density is almost the same inside and outside, and its wall is also quite battered by impacts.

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