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Urvara Impact Crater Ceres
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Image Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured this 12.5-mile-across close-up of the central peak of the 99-mile-wide Urvara impact crater on Ceres. The remarkable 6,500-foot central ridge is made from materials uplifted from depth, arising from terrains enriched with products of rock-water interactions, such as carbonates.