Posted on 02/26/2015 9:41:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
A mysterious dwarf planet has left scientists scratching their heads after a strange light was seen shining from it.
The dwarf planet Ceres has stumped boffins at NASA after a spacecraft sent to investigate it took these stunning pictures.
In the images taken by NASAs Dawn spacecraft, a bright spot is seen projecting out from the darkness of the surface.
A second bright light is seen close to the other one, leaving scientists completely baffled.
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Turn Around!
It’s not too late, we Don’t want to find out!!
(it’s Azathoth’s looking glass)
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
Pacman.
Actually a giant diamond or clear crystal is likely the answer. The entire object glows with sunlight and the second dot is the focused sunlight traveling through it as if it were a magnifying glass.
Is there a Morse code SOS signal?
I see dead pixels.
There’s a lot of ice on the moon, did it ever emit light like that?
"Ack ack ack ack ack..."
If it’s like my house, I bet some alien’s wife left the lights on all night.
I bet you a nickel that it’s nickel.
Reflections from Lois Lerner’s hard drive?
If the planet rotates, it should be pretty easy to determine the angle of the sun in relation to these lights. Take another picture from the same angle when the sun is at a different inclination, and you can determine if it is sunlight glint. This isn’t rocket science (ahem) folks.
That massive equatorial ridge is seriously weird. Iapetus also has one light colored side and a dark colored side. Ceres is out there from the sun and in a strange neighborhood. Thanks for posting the photo of Iapetus, I hadn’t seen any of this before.
The 6 kilometer equatorial ridge completely encircles the moon just to make it even odder. Early images, now removed, at NASA showed that the moon is not round but hexagonal ... and so may not be a natural body ...
It looks like the great walnut of the solar system.
Ceres residents prefer Red Stripe
“Yay beer”
Depends on the shape or angle of the ice surface which direction the reflection would go. I would imagine.
I think the ice on the moon was in a deep deep crater
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