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'Pancake' Feature on Ceres

'Pancake' Feature on Ceres
Photojournal: PIA18925
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 2, 2015
Some might see a pancake, and others a sand dollar, in this new image from NASA's Dawn mission. Astronomers are puzzling over a mysterious large circular feature located south of the equator and slightly to the right of center in this view.

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