Don;t mess with Ceres
Posted on 06/22/2015 9:34:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The latest images of Ceres taken by the Dawn spacecraft have captured a fascinating pyramid-shaped mountain on the surface.
As the spacecraft gets closer, more and more features are beginning to reveal themselves.
This includes the mysterious bright spots, which appear now as an array of dots scattered across the floor of a crater - but their source remains unknown.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3134836/Pyramid-spotted-Ceres-Mysterious-lone-mountain-discovered-towering-surface-dwarf-planet.html#ixzz3dr9nxnHS Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook The latest images of Ceres taken by the Dawn spacecraft have captured a fascinating pyramid-shaped mountain on the surface.
As the spacecraft gets closer, more and more features are beginning to reveal themselves.
This includes the mysterious bright spots, which appear now as an array of dots scattered across the floor of a crater - but their source remains unknown.
These images were taken by the Dawn spacecraft in its second mapping orbit, from a height of 2,700 miles (4,400km).
Just six months ago, Ceres appeared as nothing more than a few pixels of light to Dawn. Now it is nearing its closest orbit to the increasingly interesting dwarf planet.
By December of this year, the spacecraft will be just 225 miles (360km) above the surface - lower than the International Space Station is above Earth.
For now, scientists must make do with these tantalising glimpses of the features that are waiting on the surface.
In one new image, a pyramid-shaped peak is seen towering over a relatively flat surface.
The mountain is peculiar, as there are a few other features like it in the surrounding region - or even the rest of the dwarf planet.
The structure is thought to rise about three miles (five km), which is roughly the height of Mont Blanc in France and Italy, the highest mountain in the Alps. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So,,, we came from Ceres, and built Pyramids in honor of our escaping,,,, just like Jim Morrison sang?? And interestingly, Ceres is about the size of Texas,,,,,hmmmm
I had something like that on the end of my nose once.
I wonder if, on the polar opposite side of Ceres from the mountain, there’s a big impact crater that had a hand in its formation?
Good question. Maybe it could be popped out like a hail dent.
Hmmmmm....
My guess is that this single mountain on a flat planet is the only spot a meteor has not hit.
Don;t mess with Ceres
” By December of this year, the spacecraft will be just 225 miles (360km) above the surface - lower than the International Space Station is above Earth. “
My Prediction: Dawn is going to suffer an “accident” before this.... Probably in September
The photo image doesn’t look like a artificially-made structure.
It’s a space zit.
It’s a space zit.
I’ll wait for James C Hoagland to tell me what it is.
Surely you can’t be Ceres.
Someone let Richard Hoagland know!
Good one.
This is hugh and Ceres.
Groan
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