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English: PIA18923: Cratered Surface of Ceres - CONTEXT - CROP/ENLARGE

UPLOADER NOTES (Drbogdan (talk) 16:51, 5 July 2015 (UTC)):
CONTEXT IMAGE - shows a "pyramid-shaped" mountain (3 miles high) and surrounding area on Ceres, a dwarf planet visited by the Dawn spacecraft.
IMAGE CROP/ENLARGE - the original image was cropped to 50x50/1.22KB and then enlarged from 50x50/1.22KB to 400x400/13.5KB (via JASC Paint Shop Pro v6.02).

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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18923

The surface of Ceres is covered with craters of many shapes and sizes, as seen in this new mosaic of the dwarf planet comprised of images taken by NASA's Dawn mission on Feb. 19, 2015 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). An unusually large basin nearly 186 miles (300 kilometers) across is seen just south of the equator, with a shallow interior, faint rim and low-relief mounds within. Several bright spots are seen, including two that are very bright and lie within a single crater north of the equator. The bright spot in the center of that crater is too small to be resolved at this distance, so its true brightness is not yet known.

Dawn's mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 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. The University of California, Los Angeles, 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, http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.
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Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA18923.jpg
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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