Ceres Spots

podrock — 2/26/2015 1:54:44 AM (archived)

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/PIA19185_700.jpg

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/Ceres_two_bright_spots.asp

This is fun, watching the resolution of the images from the Dawn spacecraft looking at Ceres get better and better. It is awesome, even if it were just a gray cratered surface. But we have a bonus feature with this asteroid/planetoid: a mysterious, high-albedo anomaly. What is it? Ice?

Put us into orbit, Sulu.....

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Ceres Spots - podrock - 2/26/2015 1:54:44 AM
- The Latest Animation - podrock - 3/3/2015 4:06:20 AM
  - I'm totally baffled. - ER - 3/3/2015 5:45:14 AM
    - I'm on the edge of my seat. - podrock - 3/3/2015 6:29:20 AM
      - I'd love to see a histogram of the pixel gray levels of the raw data. - ER - 3/3/2015 3:27:09 PM
        
        histogram: - podrock - 3/3/2015 7:50:04 PM
        
        I'm not quite sure how to interpret that. - ER - 3/3/2015 8:51:24 PM
        
        process - podrock - 3/3/2015 9:18:14 PM
- ...Mr. Spock, sound General Quarters. - ER - 2/26/2015 2:34:24 AM
  - Mr. Spock . . . - DanS - 2/27/2015 7:26:58 PM
  - Long range scanner log - podrock - 2/26/2015 2:49:45 AM
    - Well, its not a processing artifact. - ER - 2/26/2015 3:06:42 AM
      - No away team, but, - podrock - 2/26/2015 4:02:26 AM
        
        Craters are never oval, regardless of the angle of impact of the projectile. - ER - 2/26/2015 5:38:11 AM
        
        Upheaval Dome - podrock - 2/28/2015 3:01:22 AM
        
        Zit city...or the planetoid pustule. - ER - 2/28/2015 9:44:41 PM
        
        Time will tell, and soon! - podrock - 2/28/2015 10:23:35 PM

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