Sentences with phrase «mysterious bright spots»

Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are actually composed of many smaller spots.

In the latest images, taken from 46,000 kilometers away and released on February 25, Dawn has sharpened its view of mysterious bright spots dotting Ceres's crater - pocked surface, some of which were previously seen in the Hubble images.

Now less than three weeks away from its historic rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres, the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft show a myriad of craters and mysterious bright spots on the tiny world.

The lead author of the new study, Paolo Molaro, at the INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory, takes up the story: «As soon as the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots on the surface of Ceres, I immediately thought of the possible measurable effects from Earth.

Ground - based telescopes bolster the case for hazes emanating from Ceres's mysterious bright spots

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft pulled into orbit earlier this month around the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt, it spotted a mysterious bright spot inside a crater.

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Separately, a team led by Andreas Nathues of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, has found what appears to be cloud - like hazes of water vapor emanating from one of the mysterious bright spots that dot Ceres's asphalt - dark surface.

«The mysterious bright spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres» past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead world, Ceres is surprisingly active.

The mysterious bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres has been revealed in its highest resolution yet, and the bright materials in it appear to be coming from a fractured dome — a possible portal to icy materials in the subsurface.

Occator was another crater that gain widespread attention for the mysterious bright spots located in its center.