
This image of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the 49-mile-wide (79-kilometer-wide) crater Nawish, which features a central pit. Numerous linear crater chains dominate the image, which is centered at approximately 20 degrees north latitude, 198 degrees east longitude. The image was taken on Oct. 2, 2015, from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers), and has a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19998
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NASA ID
PIA19998
Date Created
November 9, 2015
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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