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Dawn View from OpNav9

Dawn View from OpNav9

Photojournal: PIA19065

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Published: May 28, 2015

This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 23, 2015, from a distance of 3,169 miles (5,100 kilometers). Resolution in the image is about 1,565 feet (477 meters) per pixel.

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