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Ceres on Approach

Ceres on Approach
Photojournal: PIA19179
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 4, 2015

This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

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