Comments on: Closing in on Ceres https://habitablezone.com/2015/04/20/closing-in-on-ceres/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2015/04/20/closing-in-on-ceres/#comment-32460 ER Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:02:21 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=49392#comment-32460 Note how quickly the double bright spot is highlighted as soon as the sun rises. You'd expect this from the one located on the central peak of that crater, it pokes up above the crater rim and catches the first rays of the rising sun. Bur the smaller spot, near the crater's eastern edge, quickly glows even though it lies in the shadow of the crater's wall. It must be on high ground inside the crater, perhaps on rubble brought into the depression by an avalanche. Note how quickly the double bright spot is highlighted as soon as the sun rises. You’d expect this from the one located on the central peak of that crater, it pokes up above the crater rim and catches the first rays of the rising sun. Bur the smaller spot, near the crater’s eastern edge, quickly glows even though it lies in the shadow of the crater’s wall. It must be on high ground inside the crater, perhaps on rubble brought into the depression by an avalanche.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2015/04/20/closing-in-on-ceres/#comment-32454 podrock Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:34:58 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=49392#comment-32454 <img src="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/OpNav7_lg.jpg" alt="http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/OpNav7_lg.jpg" /> <blockquote> The bright feature called "spot 5" by the Dawn science team—actually two bright spots close together— rotates into view at right in this OpNav 7 still image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/ DLR/IDA - See more at: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/Ceres_science_gallery.asp#sthash.51f7CVWG.dpuf </blockquote> http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/OpNav7_lg.jpg

The bright feature called “spot 5″ by the Dawn science team—actually two bright spots close together— rotates into view at right in this OpNav 7 still image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/
DLR/IDA
- See more at: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/Ceres_science_gallery.asp#sthash.51f7CVWG.dpuf

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