File:PIA19574-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-2ndMappingOrbit-image6-20150606-crop300to400.jpg

English: PIA19574: Dawn Survey Orbit Image 6 - CONTEXT - CROP/ENLARGE

UPLOADER NOTES (Drbogdan (talk) 17:09, 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 1024x1024/133KB was cropped to 300x296/16.0KB and then enlarged to 400x395/24.6KB (via JASC Paint Shop Pro v6.02).

ORIGINAL IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19574

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 6, 2015.

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.