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Flight Over Ceres

Flight Over Ceres
Photojournal: PIA20019
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: January 29, 2016

This frame is from a simulated flight of NASA's Dawn over Ceres which emphasizes the most prominent craters, as well as the mountain Ahuna Mons.

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