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Mysterious Bright Spots and Pyramidal Mountain Star in Dawn’s Daunting Flyover of Ceres: Video
Video caption: Take a tour of weird Ceres! Visit a 2-mile-deep crater and a 4-mile-tall mountain in the video narrated by mission director Marc Rayman. Vertical relief has been exaggerated by a factor of five to help understand the topography. Get your red/blue glasses ready for the finale – a global view of the dwarf planet in 3D. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/LPI/PSI
Mysterious bright spots and a pyramidal shaped mountain star in a daunting new flyover video of dwarf planet Ceres created from imagery gathered by NASA’s history making Dawn mission – the first ever to visit any dwarf planet which simultaneously ranks as the largest world in the main asteroid belt residing between Mars and Jupiter.
Ceres was nothing more than a fuzzy blob to humankinds most powerful telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), until the probe swooped in this year and(…)
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Post tags: 1 Ceres, asteroid belt, ceres, ceres bright spots, ceres dawn, Chris Russell, Dawn Asteroid Orbiter, Dawn mission, DLR, dwarf planet, Framing camera, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), JPL, Main Asteroid Belt, Marc Rayman, NASA, NASA. JPL, Occator
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