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English: PIA20870: Dawn LAMO Image 148

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20870

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain near the center of the crater Vinotonus (87 miles, 140 kilometers) in Ceres' northern hemisphere. Vinotonus is named for a Celtic god of vines known from Britain.

Dawn took this image on May 27, 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.
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Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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