Relatively young craters, with sharp crater rims and streaks of bright material, are the focus of this view of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The large, ancient and quite degraded crater Fluusa is seen at top center. The younger craters are Kupalo, at lower right, and Juling, to its left.
<p>Dawn took this image on Oct. 17, 2016, from its second extended-mission science orbit (XMO2), at a distance of about 920 miles (1,480 kilometers) above the surface. The image resolution is about 460 feet (140 meters) per pxel.
</p><p>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 mission participants, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission">http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission</a>.
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For more information about the Dawn mission, visit <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov">http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov</a>.
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