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Latest Ceres Images

NASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / Emily Lakdawalla Rotating Ceres from Dawn, February 19, 2015 Dawn took 27 photos of Ceres during its Rotation Characterization 2 in order to make this animated view of the dwarf planet rotating. The publicly released version of this animation had been stretched to make Ceres’ disk appear circular. Ceres is, in fact, quite oblate, so this version has had Ceres’ shape corrected. At full size the animation has been enlarged to about 200% of its original resolution.

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Here’s a blueprint for life on Saturn’s moon

This false color image shows Titan’s northern wetlands and atmosphere. (Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans via Flickr)

Using both science and imagination, chemical engineers and astronomers have come up with a template for life on Titan, the giant moon … Continued

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Our Observed Universe is a Tiny Corner of an Enormous Cosmos –“Ruled by Dark Energy”

“This new concept is, potentially, as drastic an enlargement of our cosmic perspective as the shift from pre-Copernican ideas to the realization that the Earth is orbiting a typical star on the edge of the Milky Way.” Sir Martin Rees,…
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Approaching Ceres

More Cere’s approach photo’s from Dawn. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Beyond the mystery spots of yesterday the Framing camera on the Dawn spacecraft took other photo’s of Ceres. I like the variation in the craters. A huge flat crater on the left and just above that another will what appear … Continue reading →
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