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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 49

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 49
Photojournal: PIA19626
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: August 18, 2015

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers).

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