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The Mysterious Bright Spots on Ceres Create Mini-Atmosphere on Dwarf Planet (+Video)

Monday, July 27, 2015 17:00
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The investigation into the dwarf planet Ceres’ mysterious bright spots has taken an intriguing new twist.

The famous bright spots at the bottom of Ceres’ Occator crater appear to be sublimating material into space, creating a localized atmosphere within the walls of the 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) hole in the ground, new observations by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft suggest.

“If you look at a glancing angle, you can see what seems to be haze, and it comes back in a regular pattern,” Dawn principal investigator Christopher Russell, of UCLA, said during a presentation. 

Space.com
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