January 14, 2016

• New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images

  

  This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Kupalo Crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

  Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at Ceres.

  ( Ceres is the largest asteroid, or perhaps dwarf planet, in the Asteroid Belt that is in between the planets Mars and Jupiter.  The spacecraft Dawn arrived there last summer)

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