Intriguing bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres are coming into sharper focus as NASA's Dawn spacecraft studies the world from a high-altitude mapping orbit 915 miles up. The spacecraft is expected to descend to an altitude of just 230 miles or so later this year./ NASA 1 posted on
09/10/2015 11:12:01 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Just a guess: That’s most likely ice from when a comet went “splat” (creating the crater), part of it “bounced,” and that part went “splat” again (creating the smaller crater inside the bigger one).
2 posted on
09/10/2015 11:16:33 AM PDT by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s quite obvious that is a landing platform and docking beacon.
3 posted on
09/10/2015 11:17:38 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
To: BenLurkin
Pretty interesting, what ever they are. Dilithium crystals?
8 posted on
09/10/2015 11:31:50 AM PDT by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: BenLurkin
I thought ‘dwarf’ had become an offensive term? (See the story on Snow White and her Seven Friends)
10 posted on
09/10/2015 11:33:31 AM PDT by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: BenLurkin
One thing they already know is that’s a relatively young crater, due to the absence of smaller craters within in it.
My feeling all along is the white stuff is ice that is normally below the dusty crust.
13 posted on
09/10/2015 11:45:12 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: BenLurkin
My 2 cents.....it’s glass that is reflecting light. The glass was formed by the friction of impact. Some of it coats the impact crater center and some was ejected at the time of impact, either following or opposite of the impacting objects direction.
15 posted on
09/10/2015 11:46:57 AM PDT by
XRdsRev
(New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
To: BenLurkin
Light pollution from evil humanoid beings?
17 posted on
09/10/2015 11:47:32 AM PDT by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s pretty obvious that someone’s been mining there and didn’t get a reclamation permit from the EPA!
20 posted on
09/10/2015 11:55:18 AM PDT by
CedarDave
(Hillary for incarceration not inauguration)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t know what that white stuff is but they should rename it Tony Montana Crater.
22 posted on
09/10/2015 12:25:38 PM PDT by
TigersEye
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To: BenLurkin
Galactic seagull droppin's
23 posted on
09/10/2015 1:03:06 PM PDT by
BlueDragon
(stand back, and do not pull his finger...too late! this bird has flown)
To: BenLurkin
Dwarfs have their own planet? Cool!
24 posted on
09/10/2015 1:17:18 PM PDT by
rrrod
(Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Its the soft chewy marshmallow center of Ceres which due to tidal gravitational forces is leaking out from the center vent of the meteor crater as well a from several lateral vents. It could also be methane ice, but I would rather have marshmallow than popsicle!
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