Dawn spies new detail in Ceres' bright spots

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35880029

Dawn spies new detail in Ceres' bright spots

23 March 2016

From the section Science & Environment

The US space agency's Dawn satellite continues to return remarkable images from the dwarf planet Ceres.

Now just 385km above the surface (lower than the space station is above Earth), the probe has revealed new features inside the mini-world's Occator Crater. This is the 92km-wide depression that has multiple bright spots of what are thought to be exposed salts.

The new imagery reveals a dome in a smooth-walled pit in the centre-most bright area of the crater. With a resolution now of 35m per pixel, Dawn can make out numerous fractures that cut across the top and down the flanks of this dome.

Very prominent cracks also surround the dome and run over the crater floor, extending to the other bright spots in Occator.
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from http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-detail.html?id=PIA20350