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DAWN - image of the day - March 2016

31.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 57 (PIA20552)

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft features a smooth-walled impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The view is centered at approximately 65 degrees north latitude, 155 degrees east longitude. Dawn obtained the image on Feb. 8, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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	30.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 56 (PIA20551) This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a sinuous canyon in the southern hemisphere of Ceres, south of Yalode Crater. The view is centered at approximately 64 degrees south latitude, 291 degrees east longitude.
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29.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 55 (PIA20410)

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an area in mid-southern latitudes on Ceres. The crater named Juling (12 miles, 20 kilometers wide) is seen at lower right. Bright material is visible along its upper walls. Several narrow fractures are visible just above and to the left of the crater's rim. A broader view of this area can be seen in PIA20142, which was obtained earlier in Dawn's mission at Ceres, from a higher altitude.

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28.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 54 (PIA20409)

This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a moderate-sized impact feature that is imprinted upon the southern rim of Mondamin Crater. Shadows created by the low angle of solar illumination in this scene make visible rays of ejected material that spread radially outward from the crater. Boulders of various sizes can be seen around the crater's rim and on the sunlit part of its floor. Dawn took this image on Feb. 7, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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25.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 53 (PIA20408)

This view of Ceres shows a region in the southern hemisphere, just north of Urvara Crater. A relatively young impact feature sits below center. Several groupings of linear troughs are visible near the top of the image. NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image on Feb. 7, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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	24.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 52 (PIA20407) This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an impact site at high southern latitude on Ceres. A smooth blanket of ejecta surrounds the crater. Many boulders can be seen around the crater's rim and on the sunlit part of its floor. The view is centered at approximately 68 degrees south latitude, 78 degrees east longitude.
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23.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 51 (PIA20406)

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the southeastern rim of Occator Crater. This 57-mile- (92-kilometer-) wide crater is of high interest because of its bright spots, which are not pictured here. Compacted material forms spurs along the crater wall. A group of roughly parallel, braided fractures can be seen on the crater floor at top center. Additional fractures, more muted in their appearance, are visible near upper right and lower left. The crater's ejecta blanket, which spreads away from the rim toward lower right, is peppered mostly with very small-scale impact craters.

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	22.03.2016 - Ceres LAMO Coverage Map (PIA20356) This animation from NASA's Dawn mission shows the spacecraft's imaging coverage of dwarf planet Ceres during its low-altitude mapping orbit, 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface. The movie shows that the brightest area on Ceres, located in Occator Crater, was one of the last features to be imaged as Dawn progressively built its map.
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	22.03.2016 - Center of Occator Crater (Enhanced Color) (PIA20355) The bright central spots near the center of Occator Crater are shown in enhanced color in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Such views can be used to highlight subtle color differences on Ceres' surface. Lower resolution color data have been overlaid onto a higher resolution view (see PIA20350) of the crater.
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	22.03.2016 - Colorized Map of Ceres (Mercator Projection) (PIA20354) This colorized global map of Ceres was created from a clear-filter mosaic. Color was added to the map using spectral data from other observations of Ceres (calculated using a color transformation program). The green and yellow areas at high latitudes are places where Dawn's color imaging coverage is incomplete.
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	22.03.2016 - Color Map of Ceres (Elliptical Projection) (PIA20351) This global map shows the surface of Ceres in enhanced color, encompassing infrared wavelengths beyond human visual range. Images taken using infrared (965 nanometers), green (555 nanometers) and blue (438 nanometers) spectral filters were combined to create this view.
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22.03.2016 - Occator Crater and Ceres’ Brightest Spots (PIA20350)

Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres. This region has been the subject of intense interest since Dawn's approach to the dwarf planet in early 2015. Dawn's close-up view reveals a dome in a smooth-walled pit in the bright center of the crater. Numerous linear features and fractures crisscross the top and flanks of this dome. Prominent fractures also surround the dome and run through smaller, bright regions found within the crater.

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21.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 50 (PIA20405)

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a variety of small craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The majority of Ceres images from Dawn show heavily cratered terrains such as this. Dawn acquired this image on Jan. 26, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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18.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 49 (PIA20404)

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows mountainous terrain along the rim of Ikapati Crater, located in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The scene is lightly cratered, mostly by small impacts. A variety of linear fractures are visible on both sides of the crater rim. Dawn took this image on Jan. 25, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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17.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 48 (PIA20403)

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a portion of the southern rim of Jarovit Crater in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. Compacted material forms spurs along the upper part of the crater wall, near the center of the image. The Dawn spacecraft took this image on Jan. 25, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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	16.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 47 (PIA20402) This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The large crater in the scene appears quite ancient, with its features smoothed and rounded by subsequent impacts and the slow infall of debris from other craters.
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15.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 46 (PIA20401)

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows unnamed craters high in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. A bright patch of material can be seen on the upper wall of the large crater (near the lower left corner of the view). Dawn acquired the image on Jan. 25, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 240 miles (385 kilometers) from the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

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	14.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 45 (PIA20400) This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a scene located at mid-latitudes in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. The view features a portion of a crater between the large impact features Urvara and Yalode.
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	11.03.2016 - Dawn Color Topography of Ahuna Mons on Ceres This color topographic view show variations in surface height around Ahuna Mons, a mysterious mountain on Ceres. This view is a colorized version of PIA20348 and PIA20349. It represents an update to the view in PIA19976, which showed the mountain using data from an earlier, higher orbit.
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	10.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 44 (PIA20398) This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows a small patch of bright material close to the northern rim of the giant crater Yalode, seen at lower left. Yalode is one of the largest impact basins on Ceres, with a diameter of 160 miles (260 kilometers).
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	09.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 43 (PIA20397) This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows an unnamed Cerean crater that is surrounded by a smooth blanket of ejecta, including bright material. Both the area around the crater and its floor are peppered with giant boulders.
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	08.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 42 (PIA20396) NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of unnamed craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. The crater at left displays rough spurs of compacted material along its lower edge, while the rest of its rim appears much smoother.
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	07.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 41 (PIA20395) Heavily-shadowed craters in the northernmost latitudes of Ceres are seen in this view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The image was taken Jan. 25, 2016, from Dawn's low-altitude mapping orbit of 240 miles (385 kilometers). The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.
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	04.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 40 (PIA20394) This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the rim of Ikapati Crater on Ceres (also featured in PIA20393). The rough features around the rim of this impact scar give way to smoother, lightly cratered terrain in the lower half of the image.
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	03.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 39 (PIA20393) This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows an unnamed crater with a complex of central peaks on Ceres. Several groupings of roughly parallel fractures are present in smooth areas of the crater floor.
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	02.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 38 (PIA20392) NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this view of Azacca Crater (31 miles or 50 kilometers wide) on Ceres. The rim of this crater has terraces descending from its rim down to its floor. The crater's floor is relatively free of large impact scars, and displays a prominent set of north-south trending fractures.
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	01.03.2016 - Dawn LAMO Image 37 (PIA20391) This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the southwestern rim of Sintana Crater. The inside of the crater shows a hummocky surface. The crater's rim shows different stages of degradation -- some parts appear distinct and smooth, whereas the part at the bottom of the image is heavily degraded.
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