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Dawn LAMO Image 66

April 13, 2016
The rim of Ezinu Crater is seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

The rim of Ezinu Crater is seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

The view is centered at approximately 36 degrees north latitude, 194 degrees east longitude. The center of the crater can be seen at PIA20560. Ezinu can be seen from higher altitudes at PIA20190 and at PIA19610.

Dawn acquired this image on Feb. 12, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 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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