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Occator Topography

Occator Topography
Photojournal: PIA19975
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 30, 2015

These views, made using images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, are color-coded topographic maps of Occator crater on Ceres. Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest.

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