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English: PIA20145: Dawn HAMO Image 82

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20145

Part of the southern hemisphere on dwarf planet Ceres is seen in this image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Hamori crater, named after a Japanese god and protector of tree leaves, is the large crater near the center of the image. Hamori is 37 miles (60 kilometers) in diameter. The edge of Darzamat crater is visible in the upper left.

Dawn took this image on Oct. 18, 2015, from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). It has a resolution of 450 feet (140 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 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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Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20145.jpg
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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