Dawn snaps its best-yet image of dwarf planet Ceres
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 15:50
in Astronomy & Space
The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet. This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres as the spacecraft makes its way toward this unexplored world.