This view features Liber Crater (14 miles, 23 kilometres wide) in Ceres' northern hemisphere, at right.
Dawn took this image on June 17, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometres) above the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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