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.
Not exact matches
Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are actually composed
of many smaller
spots.
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.
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