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Cerealia Facula in False Color (perspective view)

Cerealia Facula in False Color (perspective view)
Cerealia Facula in False Color (perspective view) This is an excerpt from a much more extensive animation providing a colorful tour of some of the highlights on Ceres. It is made with the color and stereo pictures Dawn collected in its third mapping orbit 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the dwarf planet. Here we see Occator crater, with its famous bright regions. The full animation (in which both color and sound are exaggerated) also shows the strange, conical mountain Ahuna Mons plus Urvara, Haulani and Dantu (seen in more detail below) craters and more. The colors indicate different compositions, which may include salts and phyllosilicates, as explained last month. Full animation and caption. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA