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Ceres Rotation and Occator Crater (Video)

Photojournal: PIA20182
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: December 9, 2015

This frame from a video from NASA's Dawn mission shows dwarf planet Ceres in false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials.

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