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Discovering Ceres: Where Are All the Large Craters?
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Discovering Ceres: Where Are All the Large Craters?

One of the many surprising discoveries made by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in orbit over Ceres is that the dwarf planet has fewer large craters than might ordinarily be expected. As the largest target in the shooting gallery which is the main asteroid belt where Ceres resides, it should be bear the scars of numerous large […]

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Global Topographic Map of Mercury
By 2016.05.10 0 Comments Read More →

Global Topographic Map of Mercury

Just in time for yesterday’s transit of innermost planet Mercury across the face of the sun, NASA released the first global elevation model of the sun scorched world, courtesy of the MESSENGER spacecraft. While Mercury is hardly at the top of anyone’s list of habitable planets, it is at least worth recalling that among its […]

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