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PIA19975: Occator Topography
These views, made using images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, are color-coded topographic maps of Occator crater on Ceres. Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest.
 Target Name:  Ceres
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Dawn 
 Spacecraft:  Dawn
 Instrument:  Framing Camera 
 Product Size:  2186 x 1446 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA19975.tif (7.155 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA19975.jpg (273.6 kB)  

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These views, made using images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show color-coded topographic maps of Occator Crater on Ceres.

Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest. The crater, which is home to the brightest spots on Ceres, is approximately 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep.

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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Image Addition Date:
2015-09-30