PIA20359: Haulani Crater at LAMO
 Target Name:  Ceres
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Dawn
 Spacecraft:  Dawn
 Instrument:  Framing Camera
 Product Size:  5060 x 4532 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA20359.tif (15.1 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA20359.jpg (2.021 MB)

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This image is a mosaic of views that NASA's Dawn spacecraft took in its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface of Ceres. In the center is Haulani Crater, which has a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers).

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/PSI

Image Addition Date:
2016-04-19