PIA20359: Haulani Crater at LAMO


Haulani Crater at LAMO

Caption:

This image is a mosaic of views that NASA's Dawn spacecraft took in its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface of Ceres. In the center is Haulani Crater, which has a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers).

Background Info:

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 .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target 1 Ceres
System Main Belt
Target Type Dwarf Planet Asteroid
Mission Dawn
Instrument Host Dawn
Host Type Orbiter
Instrument Framing Camera (FC)
Detector
Extra Keywords Crater, Grayscale
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2016-04-19
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20359
Identifier PIA20359