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VIR Image of Ceres, May 2015

VIR Image of Ceres, May 2015
Photojournal: PIA19571
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
Published: June 10, 2015

Images from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) show a portion of Ceres' cratered northern hemisphere, taken on May 16, 2015.

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