Dawn spacecraft image of mysterious bright spots on Ceres
Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 3 months ago to Science
""The new images show the bright spots in much greater detail. They’re located inside a crater estimated to be six miles across. Before, the probe’s camera could only resolve two spots on the surface, but now there are at least eight distinct points of light and possibly more. Also featured in the images is an unusual mountain with steep slopes that juts up unexpectedly from an otherwise smooth are of Ceres
Not a stretch for an iron-core asteroid to have impacted, heat generated would have melted the core and it would have settled into the bottom of the crater, frozen, and now a nice shiny surface to reflect.
Big deal.
http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu205...
You folks need to get out space-cruising more often. Geez.
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about NASA. . a dollar in and a thousand out, from
incentivized invention and development. . Super!!! -- j
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http://www.seattleastronomy.com/blog1/20...
The mountain's pretty interesting as well.