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Dawn LAMO Image 21

Dawn LAMO Image 21
Photojournal: PIA20311
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 5, 2016

The image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the northeast rim of Sintana Crater on Ceres. The crater's steep rim is shadowed in this particular view.

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