Science Source Stock Photo - Occator Crater on Dwarf Planet Ceres

Occator Crater on Dwarf Planet Ceres

Description: This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots. The spots are much brighter than the rest of Ceres' surface, and tend to appear overexposed in most images. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This view is a composite of two images of Occator: one using a short exposure that captures the detail in the bright spots, and one where the background surface is captured at normal exposure. The images were obtained by Dawn during the mission's High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) phase, from which the spacecraft imaged the surface at a resolution of about 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2714590

Legacy Identifier: JC8974

Type: Image

Size: 1500px × 1500px (~6 MB)

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