NASA’s Dawn Mission has been exploring the largest rock in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter since March 6, 2015 when a historic landing was made on the dwarf planet. Now, the probe has released new colorful maps of the dwarf planet. The maps beautifully show the height differences between crater bottoms and mountain […]
We’ve been so focused on Pluto we’ve completely ignored another dwarf planet closer to the sun, tucked deep inside the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter: Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft just spotted something spectacular about the planet! Mysterious bright spots were seen sparkling on the planet as the Dawn mission approached the […]
So NASA is roaming Ceres, the dwarf planet that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and finds unexpected objects on its surface!”Intriguing,” the NASA scientists said. NASA sent its tractor-trailer-size spacecraft, installed with a flashy camera and it captured a shocking structure rising 3 miles above the planet’s cratered surface. Conveniently for […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft got its first sight of mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres on final approach early this year, and scientists released the nearest view of the features. The brightest points in the crater are clustered within a 55-mile (90-kilometer) across. The markings consist of several small spots with different sizes and […]
Being concentrated in just one place and close to each other situated in what looks the best place in the entire area, one can’t but suspect that these bright lights are alien domes where the inhabitants of the Ceres planetoid are residing together. These might be a far fetched theory but if it’s true, […]
Ceres is now getting its own personal pictorial from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Earlier images sent back by the craft caused some speculation as two bright and shiny spots were fueling the imaginations of scientists and story tellers alike. It’s no surprise that the craft has dedicated some of its resources into learning what these spots […]
Dawn was below 14,000 kilometers from Ceres when this photograph was captured and the resolution is 1.3 kilometers per pixel (in the original image; I zoomed it a bit to display the spots better here). It’s difficult to explain what these structures are. They may be a group of large spots with loads of small […]
We still don’t know precisely what is bringing on the bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet of our solar system -Ceres. Thanks to the new images shared by NASA – the most detailed so far- of the planet’s surface, we do realize that there is a greater amount of those tiny bright […]
Ceres is the largest astronomical body present in the asteroid belt. Past February NASA probe Dawn photographed the planetoid containing two bright spots in the center. Since then scientist have formed several theories regarding the origin and identification of the spots. Theories suggest that these spots might have resulted from the sun light reflecting from […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has set up a website that will collect votes regarding the bright mysterious spots on Ceres. Dawn spacecraft was launched to observe the dwarf planets Ceres and Vesta. Early this year, it captured images that revealed exceptionally bright spots on the surface. But scientists at NASA’s JPL, which is […]
