NASA's recently released images of the dwarf planet Ceres have the Internet doing a double take. Pockmarked with craters, Ceres' surface resembles the familiar landscape of our moon.

The Dawn spacecraft captured the images , approximately 240 miles from the dwarf planet, NASA says. The images show in amazing detail the dwarf planet's craters, shedding light on how they formed and the secrets contained within them.

Among the highlights was the incredible view of the 16-mile-wide Kupalo Crater, which NASA says was captured at the astonishing resolution of 120 feet per pixel.

"This crater and its recently-formed deposits will be a prime target of study for the team as Dawn continues to explore Ceres in its final mapping phase, Paul Schenk, a Dawn science team member at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said in a statement.

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NASA also drew a comparison between one of Ceres' craters, the Dantu Crater, which has similar fractured features to the Tycho crater on Earth's moon.

The images come on the heels of the discovery of Ceres' bright spots and of the first images captured from this closer-than-ever viewpoint. Those images, which NASA says were captured to test Dawn's backup framing camera, showed many other craters on the dwarf planet.

"As we take the highest-resolution data ever from Ceres, we will continue to examine our hypotheses and uncover even more surprises about this mysterious world," Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission, said in a statement.

The dwarf planet, located between Mars and Jupiter, may even have ice buried under its crust. NASA says Ceres may have than we might think.

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