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Dawn LAMO Image 120

June 29, 2016
Smooth terrain around the western rim of Ikapati Crater on Ceres is visible in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The area contains material ejected from Ikapati during its formation.

Smooth terrain around the western rim of Ikapati Crater on Ceres is visible in this image. The area contains material ejected from Ikapati during its formation.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image on April 18, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel. A higher-altitude view of Ikapati is available at PIA20127.

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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