Lateral View of Occator
![Lateral View of Occator](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PIA20181_hires-1.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
December 9, 2015
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA |
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PIA Number | PIA20181 |
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A group of scientists from NASA's Dawn mission suggests that when sunlight reaches Ceres' Occator Crater, a kind of thin haze of dust and evaporating water forms there. Occator measures about 60 miles (90 kilometers) wide.