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Gaue Crater -- Ceres

Gaue Crater -- Ceres

Photojournal: PIA19633

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

Published: August 25, 2015

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft took this image of Gaue crater, the large crater on the bottom, on Ceres. Gaue is a Germanic goddess to whom offerings are made in harvesting rye. The resolution of the image is 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.

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