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Ceres Animations: Global View, Occator, Mountain, 3-D View

Ceres Animations: Global View, Occator, Mountain, 3-D View
Photojournal: PIA19619
Source: Global views: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI; Occator and mountain views: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/LPI
Published: August 6, 2015

This frame from a video shows the bright spots in Occator crater on dwarf planet Ceres, generated from data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

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