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Dawn HAMO Image 56

Dawn HAMO Image 56
Photojournal: PIA19999
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: November 10, 2015

This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a 23-mile-wide (37 kilometer-wide) crater called Tupo, which features a curved central peak complex and terraces.

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