CANADA: NASA’s spacecraft Dawn has sent back the closest images ever taken of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The closest pictures ever taken of the dwarf planet Ceres show that its surface is so peppered with crater marks that it looks like a giant golf ball.
Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is being observed by the spacecraft Dawn which arrived in the Spring.
Scientists have previously spotted plumes of water vapour gushing from the asteroid raising hopes that it could harbour primitive forms of alien life beneath on the surface, or beneath its crust.
Dawn is currently 2,700 miles above the surface of Ceres and has been taking detailed pictures of the pock-marked surface.
“Everything we learn from Ceres will be absolutely new,” said Christopher Russell, a UCLA professor of space physics and planetary science, and the Dawn mission’s principal investigator. “We approach it in awe and almost total ignorance.”
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