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Animation of Ceres

Animation of Ceres
Photojournal: PIA19168
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: January 19, 2015

NASA's Dawn spacecraft as it observed Ceres for an hour from a distance of 238,000 miles.

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