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Ceres Gets Weirder – NASA Just Released New Ceres Photos (+Video)
Get up close with Ceres’ weird ‘Pyramid’ and bright spots in new NASA photos. The closer we get to Ceres, the more perplexing the dwarf planet grows.
The intriguing brightest spots on Ceres lie in a crater named Occator, which is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilometers) deep.
Among the highest features seen on Ceres so far is a mountain about 4 miles (6 kilometers) high, which is roughly the elevation of Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park.
It’s unusual that it’s not associated with a crater.
Why is it sitting in the middle of nowhere?
Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Dawn will resume its observations of Ceres in mid-August from an altitude of 900 miles (less than 1,500 kilometers), or three times closer to Ceres than its previous orbit.
Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn/cruise-over-ceres-in-new-video
Images credit: NASA
THESE ARE CARTOONS…..where are the real photographs? why the lies and cover up NASA?
Amazing clairity on the fake glowing pyramid yet…yet…no surrounding stars again. NASA always seems to somehow filter out the stars from their movie sets.