Dawn's Gateway View of Ceres

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Dec. 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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