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Icy “Dwarf Planet” Ceres Looming Larger as Dawn Approaches

Icy “Dwarf Planet” Ceres Looming Larger as Dawn Approaches

Ceres Photographed on January 15 / Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Closing in on its March 6 rendezvous with the dwarf planet Ceres, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has provided its best image yet of the enigmatic ice world which is the largest object in the main asteroid belt. The images, shown below in a looped 2 second YouTube […]

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