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Dawn Survey Orbit Image 17

Dawn Survey Orbit Image 17
Photojournal: PIA19585
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: June 30, 2015

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 16, 2015, 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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