CANADA: NASA released a new video that offers viewers a glimpse of the diverse and dramatic surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The new Ceres video tour, which was uploaded on YouTube Wednesday, was compiled from images that were gathered by the Dawn spacecraft that currently orbits the alien world from a height of around 1,200 miles, the closest the probe has gotten to Ceres.
Scientists want to learn more about Ceres because it is a relic of the early solar system and it has not changed much over the last four billion years. They hope that by studying this alien world, the largest object found in the main asteroid belt between planets Jupiter and Mars, it would unveil what occurred during the early stages of the solar system including how planets formed and evolved.
Among the things that have been intriguing scientists are the mysterious glowing white spots found on the surface of Ceres. Dawn captured the bright spots at the bottom of the 2-mile-deep Occator crater.
Scientists have been interested on the white spots since they were found and a popular theory is that the glowing spots are made of some kind of ice or water.
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