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Settling in at Ceres

Settling in at Ceres
Photojournal: PIA19064
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: April 20, 2015

This frame from an animated sequence of images shows northern terrain on the sunlit side of dwarf planet Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on April 14 and 15, 2015.

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