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Ceres Gets Weirder With More Bright Spots and Unexplained Pyramid

• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com

If you thought Ceres' spots were weird, wait until you see its mystifying pyramid.

Indeed, Ceres has intrigued NASA scientists and worked fringe UFO bloggers into a frenzy since the Dawn spacecraft arrived for a close-up of the dwarf planet in March. Upon arrival, Dawn imaged a cluster of bright spots in a crater; now, a pyramid towering over a flat landscape serves as the latest addition to Ceres' scrapbook of oddities.

Scientists have plenty of questions about Ceres' features, but will we get answers? Maybe.

Space Oddity

Right now, Dawn is in its second orbiting phase roughly 2,700 miles above Ceres, which has given us a closer look at the now famous bright spots. We now know there are even more spots than we initially saw in early images.


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