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Cratered Surface of Ceres in Motion

Cratered Surface of Ceres in Motion
Photojournal: PIA18924
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: March 2, 2015

The surface of Ceres is covered with craters of many shapes and sizes, as seen in this frame from an animation of a map of the dwarf planet's surface as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 19, 2015.

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