All the time that I've been distracted by the New Horizons mission at Pluto, the other dwarf planet mission has been steadily, methodically sharing dozens of images of brand-new sights of a previously unexplored icy world. I'm talking about the Dawn mission to Ceres, of course, and for the last couple of days I've been making up for lost time, completely buried in the Dawn Ceres images that have been released over the last few months in NASA's Planetary Photojournal.

Lately, they have begun to release images taken from their High-Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO), just 1470 kilometers above the surface of Ceres. These images are super cool but because I haven't been paying close attention to the mission (distracted by Pluto!) I found it difficult to orient myself and understand the scale of the features. So, like any good geologist, I made a context map.

I began with this great map of Ceres that includes labels for the first craters to be named: