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Urvara Crater

Urvara Crater
Urvara Crater Dawn had this view of Urvara crater in mapping cycle #4 from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) during the third mapping orbit. (Urvara is a Vedic goddess associated with fertile lands and plants.) The crater is 101 miles (163 kilometers) in diameter. It displays a variety of features, including a particularly bright region on the peak at the center, ridges nearby, a network of fissures, some smooth regions and much rougher terrain. You can locate all the areas shown in this month’s photos on the Ceres map presented last month. Full image and caption. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA