In March, the NASA Dawn Spacecraft entered the orbit of the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres, with the craft scheduled to begin sending images to Earth later this month.
For several weeks, surprising and unexplained bright spots within a crater on the planet’s surface have generated enormous buzz in popular media.
Despite now orbiting at a near altitude of just 2,700 miles, those big spots remain a mystery. But Dawn is also beginning to pick out other bright spots and an odd pyramid-shaped peak that NASA estimates to be three miles tall, CNN reports.
But not only other bright spots and the pyramid have been spotted by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn also spotted another weird feature, an ancient Dome, about 10 times the size of Empire State.
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For several weeks, surprising and unexplained bright spots within a crater on the planet’s surface have generated enormous buzz in popular media.
Despite now orbiting at a near altitude of just 2,700 miles, those big spots remain a mystery. But Dawn is also beginning to pick out other bright spots and an odd pyramid-shaped peak that NASA estimates to be three miles tall, CNN reports.
But not only other bright spots and the pyramid have been spotted by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn also spotted another weird feature, an ancient Dome, about 10 times the size of Empire State.
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