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Occator Crater: Enhanced View

Occator Crater: Enhanced View
Photojournal: PIA19617
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/LPI
Published: August 6, 2015

This frame from an animation from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows intriguing bright spots on Ceres lie in a crater named Occator, which is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilometers) deep.

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