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Dawn LAMO Image 67

April 14, 2016
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a fresh crater among older terrain on Ceres, typical of the terrain of the dwarf planet.

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a fresh crater among older terrain on Ceres, typical of the terrain of the dwarf planet.

The view is centered at approximately 18 degrees south latitude, 161 degrees east longitude.

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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