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September 10, 2015 10:00 am

Close-Up Images Show Ceres' Bright Spots In Great Detail

New submitter Actual_Alien writes: Since the Dawn probe arrived at Ceres, everybody has been wondering about the mysterious bright spots on an otherwise dark dwarf planet. New images sent back recently show the spots in better detail than ever — 140 meters per pixel. NASA used composite imagery to get high-quality exposures of both the bright areas and the surrounding dark areas. We can now clearly see a wide, flat crater with a rim that's almost vertical in spots. The brightest area is right at the center, with other markings to the upper right in the image. Dawn's orbit around Ceres also allows scientists to look at the crater from other perspectives, and they've generated a pair of animations to illustrate better what it looks like. One of them highlights the bright spots, while the other shows color-coded topography.

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