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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 20

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 20
Photojournal: PIA19588
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: July 6, 2015

This image, taken on June 22, 2015 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) with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel.

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