File:PIA19614-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-2ndMappingOrbit-image41-20150625.jpg

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English: PIA19614: Dawn Survey Orbit Image 41

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19614

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was taken on June 25, 2015.

The large crater with a central peak at bottom is Zadeni crater, measuring about 80 miles (129 kilometers) across.

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 http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.

For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.
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Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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