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Dawn LAMO Image 9

Dawn LAMO Image 9
Photojournal: PIA20299
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: January 20, 2016

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures gently curving canyons amid cratered plains on Ceres. The image is centered at approximately 31 degrees south latitude, 259 degrees east longitude, just north of the large crater Urvara.

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