Tagged: Ceres

The dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt but looks nothing like its neighbors. In a new paper, scientists propose an explanation for the conundrum. Ceres, the most dominant member of the asteroid belt, doesn’t look like the other asteroids. Most notably, it...

Stunning animation has been made up of real images taken by the robotic space probe Dawn NASA has released a video showing an incredible flyby of mysterious dwarf planet Ceres. The highly-detailed animated footage has been built up using real images taken from NASA’s robotic Dawn...

It was only a matter of time before someone made a short video with Ceres as the star. The dwarf planet, which has been the focus of the NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of late, lies between Mars and Jupiter. With an average diameter of 590 miles,...

The discovery of water on Ceres makes it a prime destination for future human colonies according to space boff NASA has found water on a planet in our solar system’s asteroid belt – and it could be home to alien colonies, scientists have revealed. New images...

In March, the NASA Dawn Spacecraft entered the orbit of the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres, with the craft scheduled to begin sending images to Earth later this month. For several weeks, surprising and unexplained bright spots within a crater on the planet’s surface have generated...

On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie in the orbital region between Mars and Jupiter. By pointing his telescope in Palermo during subsequent 41 nights, he...

The surface of dwarf planet Ceres is not entirely dark. There are some exceptions in form of the hundreds of bright areas clearly seen in images returned by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The bright areas of Occator Crater — Cerealia Facula in the center and Vinalia...

Ceres – the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change, according to observations made by NASA’s Dawn mission. Recently exposed deposits found by NASA’s Dawn mission indicate changes in Ceres’ surface and the image...