File:Occator PIA19889.jpg

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19889 - HAMO IMAGE 13 (?)

NOTE: Former File Name => "File:PIA19889-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Region5-BrightSpots-HAMO-20150909.jpg"

NOTE: HAMO orbit ("High Altitude Mapping Orbit") - imaged between 17 August 2015 – 23 October 2015 at 1,470 km (910 mi) altitude above the surface of Ceres.

NOTE: Links to Related Animations are at the following:
BLACK/WHITE ANIMATIONS:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19890
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/animation/PIA19890
COLOR ANIMATIONS:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19891
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/animation/PIA19891

ORIGINAL IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots.

The bright spots are much brighter than the rest of Ceres' surface, and tend to appear overexposed in most images. This view is a composite of two images of Occator: one using a short exposure that captures the detail in the bright spots, and one where the background surface is captured at normal exposure.

The images were obtained by Dawn during the mission's High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) phase, from which the spacecraft imaged the surface at a resolution of about 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.

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.