PIA22759: Large Block Along the Ridge of Urvara Crater
This image of a large block along the ridge of Urvara Crater on Ceres was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 24, 2018 from an altitude of about 36 miles (58 kilometers).
 Target Name:  Ceres
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Dawn 
 Spacecraft:  Dawn
 Instrument:  Framing Camera 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
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 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22759.jpg (96.89 kB)  

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This image was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 24, 2018 from an altitude of about 36 miles (58 kilometers).

The center of this picture is located at about 46.1 degrees south latitude and 248.5 degrees east longitude.

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorates Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. JPL is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.

For a complete list of Dawn mission participants, visit 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:
2018-09-26