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Detective Osprey - 07-18-2018
Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bizarre Bright Spots Shine in Stunning Up-Close View
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | July 17, 2018 02:49pm ET
This mosaic of Cerealia Facula inside the dwarf planet Ceres' Occator Crater is based on images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its second extended mission, from an altitude as low as about 21 miles (34 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
You may have seen the bizarre bright spots speckling the dwarf planet Ceres — but not like this.NASA's Ceres-orbiting
Dawn spacecraft has captured jaw-dropping new photos of several of the bright-white features, formally known as faculae, that lie at the bottom of the dwarf planet's 57-mile-wide (92 kilometers) Occator Crater. Dawn snapped the images from an elevation of about 21 miles (34 km) — just three times higher than a commercial airliner flies, NASA officials said.
In Pictures: The Changing Bright Spots of Dwarf Planet Ceres
https://www.space.com/41197-dwarf-planet-ceres-bright-spots-photos.html?utm_source=notification
So beautiful...