Craters on Dwarf Planet Ceres Shine in Stunning New Up-Close Photos

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 08:10 in Astronomy & Space

The images were captured last month by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of just 240 miles (385 kilometers) — the final and closest of a series of orbits for the probe, which has been circling Ceres since March 2015.

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