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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Tibong Crater (22 miles, 36 kilometers wide), at left, on Ceres. The image is centered at 29 degrees south latitude, 354 degrees east longitude.
Dawn took this image on June 17, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.
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 mission participants, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission .
For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .
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 | 2016-10-10 | |
Date in Caption | 2016-06-17 | |
Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20951 | |
Identifier | PIA20951 |