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Dawn LAMO Image 29

Feb. 18, 2016
This scene from Ceres, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows an older crater (at top center) that has been blanketed by impact ejecta from the younger crater to its right.

This scene from Ceres shows an older crater (at top center) that has been blanketed by impact ejecta from the younger crater to its right. The older crater appears to contain a central peak and remnants of a complex floor, with slumping material.

The image is centered at approximately 10.5 degrees north latitude, 155.7 degrees east longitude. NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured the scene on Jan. 3, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), at an altitude of 227 miles (366 kilometers) above Ceres. The image resolution is 112 feet (34 meters) per pixel.

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgments, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.

For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.

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