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Description	English: PIA20302: Dawn LAMO Image 12 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20302 This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures a portion of the northern hemisphere of Ceres. Bright material can be seen in the wall of the large crater at upper right. The image is centered at approximately 15 degrees north latitude, 351 degrees east longitude. Dawn captured the scene on Dec. 21, 2015 from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), at an approximate altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers) above Ceres. 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 acknowledgments, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission. For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Date	21 December 2015
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20302.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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