This image is a mosaic of views that NASA's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" class="extiw" title="w:Dawn (spacecraft)">Dawn</a> spacecraft took in its low-altitude mapping orbit (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)#Ceres_orbit" class="extiw" title="w:Dawn (spacecraft)">LAMO</a>), at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" class="extiw" title="w:Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>. In the center is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haulani_(crater)" class="extiw" title="w:Haulani (crater)">Haulani</a> crater, which has a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers).
<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 acknowledgments, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission">http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission</a>.
</p><p>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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The original NASA image has been cropped and converted from TIFF to JPEG format by the uploader.
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