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Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges


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Ahuna Mons mountain, Ceres

The mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images from its lowest-altitude orbit.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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