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Dawn's Gateway View of Ceres

Dawn's Gateway View of Ceres
Photojournal: PIA19049
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: December 5, 2014

From about three times the distance from Earth to the moon, NASA's Dawn spacecraft spies its final destination -- the dwarf planet Ceres.

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