Space spots closeup

Back in March I posted a picture of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It had bright spots which were puzzling NASA.

Well, new pictures have come back from the probe called Dawn, which is now in its first full orbit of Ceres. This picture was taken from 13,600km away.

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Look at the spots. There aren’t just two, as previously thought. There are several smaller ones as well.

Amazing.