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Dawn HAMO Image 71

Dawn HAMO Image 71
Photojournal: PIA20134
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: December 7, 2015

This view shows the southwestern rim of 106-mile-wide (170-kilometer-wide) Urvara crater on Ceres.In the crater's center is a prominent double peak. NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the image on Oct. 15, 2015.

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