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Dawn HAMO Image 63

Dawn HAMO Image 63

Photojournal: PIA20125

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: November 19, 2015

This image of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows hummocky terrain -- a surface covered in low, rounded hills -- with numerous impact craters of varying sizes.

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