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While New Horizons has gotten much of the planetary science glory this year after returning data from its spectacular Pluto flyby in 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has continued to plug along in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.
On Friday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released two new images of Ceres; a view of the intriguing Occator Crater that provides new perspective on the distinctive feature and a global image of Ceres that represents how the world would appear to the naked eye, were a human in orbit. (If only.)
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Source: Ars Technica – New image of Ceres shows what it would look like if you were there