Posted on 04/16/2015 2:51:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Brand new images taken on April 10 by NASA’s Dawn probe show the dwarf planet from high above its north pole. Photographed at a distance of just 21,000 miles (33,000 km) — less than 10 times the Earth-moon distance — they’re our sharpest views to date. The crispness combined with the low-angled sunlight gives Ceres a stark, lunar-like appearance.
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Meanwhile, scientists have assembled images taken by Dawn through blue, green and infrared filters to create a new color-enhanced map of the dwarf planet. The variety of landforms in conjunction with the color variations hint that Ceres was once an active body or one with the means to resurface itself from within. Mechanisms might involve internal heating and / or movement of water or ice.
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This is hugh and Ceres.
I think that should be less than 1/10 the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Nope. The moon is only 2100 miles away......
It has a bad case of acne!
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