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Haulani Seen by VIR

Haulani Seen by VIR
Photojournal: PIA19608
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
Published: July 28, 2015

This image, from NASA's Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), highlights a bright region on Ceres known as Haulani, named after the Hawaiian plant goddess.

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