V MartínDec 8, 2022

#TBT #JulingCrater on #DwarfPlanetCeres as imaged by #NASADawnMission

I took the liberty of stretching and distorting the original to cover more of the frame.

Original: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia21920-juling-craters-floor
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/ASI/INAF

Science paper on the ice-rich northern wall (here upper left): https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aao3757

Juling Crater's Floor

This view from NASA's Dawn mission shows the floor of Ceres' Juling Crater. The crater floor shows evidence of the flow of ice and rock, similar to rock glaciers in Earth's polar regions.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)