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Circling Occator Crater on Ceres

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Published: September 9, 2015

This animation, made using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the topography of Occator crater on Ceres.

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