[BenLurkin]

Comparison of HST and Dawn FC images of Ceres taken nearly 11 years apart. Credit: NASA.

[njslim]

Alien Mother Ship....?????

[cripplecreek]

Could be ice or it could be titanium oxide like we see on the moon.

Could be a vast military installation.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

John Belushi, aka, “Blutarksy”, had the answer many decades again, “ZITS”! Maybe volcanic ZITS!

Are we CEREOUS about this? Absolutely not! “In Space, No One Can Hear You Laugh”.

Saw some of “Alien” last night for the 900th time. Never loses its edge and Ripley “Rocked”.

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Yardstick]

Belly button.

[Bob]

Since it’s a white spot, it’s obviously racist. Expect Rev. Al to start his bitchin’ any time now.

[outofsalt]

A white spot? Send rev’runt Al to protest!

[JPG]

I asked for chocolate

[Prospero]

Finding the source of the water vapor detected, on an airless body this close into the solar system will be interesting, too. Occam's razor says the Spot on Ceres is a lighter material, an area less optically mature, perhaps nothing more than an impact crater, or a remarkable Mars-like dune plain.

Either way, should be pretty interesting. First Ceres, three months later, Pluto's close-up, about wrapping up the major players in the star system I was born into.

[GreenHornet]

It’s a tarp covering the field where the local Ceres baseball team plays its home games. They’re in a rain delay.

[Fred Hayek]

Is there a black dot in the middle of the white spot? Upon magnification, do the dimensions have a ratio of 1:4:9?

[WKUHilltopper]

Zit?

[Squawk 8888]

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It looks like a sinkhole filled with gas, methane perhaps, or ice. If not a collapsed cave root, it could be a crater in the surface caused by an asteroid strike.

[workerbee]

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Leprosy?

[Prospero]

Cleaned up that shaky framing camera series...

[Vroomfondel]

What is it?

XKCD is all over it this morning.