Ceres, for real · flyable terrain

Occator Crater

The crater with the famous bright spots — salt where briny water reached vacuum.

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Where every bump comes fromPROCESSED

Dawn framing camera stereo DTM (HAMO), 137 m/px · product Ceres_Dawn_FC_HAMO_DTM_DLR_Global_60ppd_Oct2016 · NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA · USGS Astrogeology. Scene 162 × 172 km, elevation -1,374 m to 4,879 m against the 482 × 446 km Ceres reference ellipsoid. Surface color: Dawn framing camera global mosaic at its native 400 m/px — the bright faculae are real albedo, NASA/JPL/MPS/DLR/IDA. Heights are referenced to Ceres' ellipsoid so the dwarf planet's oblateness doesn't tilt the scene.

No generative models anywhere on this page — the pipeline crops, resamples down, and normalizes; it never invents a bump the instrument didn’t measure.

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