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English: PIA19587: Dawn Survey Orbit Image 19

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19587

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows 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 18, 2015. A mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high, surrounded by relatively smooth terrain, can be seen near the center of the limb. The same feature can be seen in PIA19586 at => http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19586

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/PIA19587.jpg
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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