Lateral View of Occator

Lateral View of Occator
December 9, 2015
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA20181
Language
  • english

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.