Gif related image of dawn taken at 383,000 kmImage related Dawn current position related to Ceres.Expected arrival of dawn to Ceres in early march.What is the spot? Start your guesses.

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Ceres Dawn 01/23/15 (Fri) 18:08:51 No.1444

Gif related image of dawn taken at 383,000 km

Image related Dawn current position related to Ceres.

Expected arrival of dawn to Ceres in early march.

What is the spot? Start your guesses.

01/23/15 (Fri) 23:10:48 No.1448

*Image of ceres

01/24/15 (Sat) 03:59:51 No.1449

My guess is a crater that has punched though the crust and exposed the ice.

01/24/15 (Sat) 05:18:45 No.1452

File: 1422076725696.png (178.74 KB, 305x305, 1:1, Ceres approach.png)

>GIF
NASA pls

01/25/15 (Sun) 22:09:04 No.1470

File: 1422223744211.jpg (153.05 KB, 1200x900, 4:3, fullview2.jpg)

getting closer

01/26/15 (Mon) 03:36:32 No.1471

guys…

NASA wants Ceres OC..

let's make em proud

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/dawncommunity/imagine_ceres.asp

01/26/15 (Mon) 09:59:45 No.1472

>>1471
I imagine that bloody white spot is a pool of alien's semen.

01/26/15 (Mon) 11:29:41 No.1473

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>>1472
I sent them this

01/26/15 (Mon) 19:29:54 No.1474

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get hype

new images downloadin

01/27/15 (Tue) 21:42:20 No.1487

File: 1422394940415.gif (1.52 MB, 600x600, 1:1, Ceres_OpNav2_Anim_v2.gif)

new image!

01/27/15 (Tue) 21:45:41 No.1488

>>1473
>not putting the blunt in his pinched fingers

you had one job.

01/27/15 (Tue) 23:32:39 No.1489

>>1488
>1488 420

I'm sorry i don;t actually smoke so i don;t know how it works.

02/03/15 (Tue) 00:22:28 No.1525

File: 1422922948792.jpg (158.95 KB, 1200x900, 4:3, fullview2.jpg)

getting closer

02/03/15 (Tue) 14:50:28 No.1530

>>1525
>simulator

It's a fake!

02/04/15 (Wed) 04:24:13 No.1532

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>>1530
Completed reorientation for navop. We are taking new pictures of ceres now.

02/05/15 (Thu) 21:28:32 No.1559

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new images

02/06/15 (Fri) 07:19:16 No.1566

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>>1559

Why is it taking so long?

02/06/15 (Fri) 14:50:12 No.1571

>>1566
The engine isn't powerful enough to halt our entry into gravity capture rapidly. We have to start breaking months ahead of time which means we are going really slow. In fact we are going to pass by Ceres and fly away form it for a few weeks by the end of the month. We will have to turn around and go back again.

02/06/15 (Fri) 18:36:45 No.1574

>>1559
it's surface looks very rough, how intreguing

02/08/15 (Sun) 00:37:29 No.1587

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>>1574

02/17/15 (Tue) 20:39:32 No.1700

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Ceres from 83,000 kilometers (52,000 miles).

02/17/15 (Tue) 21:09:44 No.1701

>>1700

So it's literally closer than our moon now.

Why so small?

02/19/15 (Thu) 10:04:09 No.1720

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We are now captured by the gravity. Still breaking. At this point we are a few days away from the closest approach for this month before starting to get farther away again and waiting for gravity to do its thing.

02/19/15 (Thu) 10:07:50 No.1721

>>1701
It isn't a telescope

02/19/15 (Thu) 15:01:53 No.1723

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>>1720

I am exited

02/25/15 (Wed) 18:23:23 No.1823

File: 1424888603807.jpg (20.9 KB, 844x484, 211:121, bright spot.jpg)

are you ready for dis mufugga

02/25/15 (Wed) 19:09:57 No.1824

>>1823
Really surprised it's still not clear what that white spot is. Perhaps it's a recent impact?

02/25/15 (Wed) 21:17:25 No.1825

>>1824

It's the single largest diamond known to man.

Smegma!C0cks51q.s 02/28/15 (Sat) 10:53:42 No.1858

it is a reflection of something. Nothing to get worked up about I would imagine

03/02/15 (Mon) 19:19:25 No.1885

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>>1823
> tfw can't tell if image is shopped or real

03/02/15 (Mon) 21:59:41 No.1886

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>>1823
Aliums confirmed

03/05/15 (Thu) 04:50:26 No.1899

>>1487

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000! (Bwwwang!)

03/09/15 (Mon) 08:28:45 No.1928

>>1825
Not even close
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/06/remarkable-white-dwarf-star-possibly-coldest-dimmest-ever-detected

03/09/15 (Mon) 17:13:07 No.1930

>>1928
That's cray/ Reminds me last year a new star was discovered only 7 light years away that has a temperature of 9 deg C.

How fucking awesome would that be to live on a star.

03/10/15 (Tue) 02:12:52 No.1933

>>1930
Even if it had a surface and a tolerable atmosphere, the gravity alone would destroy you.

03/10/15 (Tue) 21:30:26 No.1937

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>>1823
… what the fuck is it?

03/11/15 (Wed) 01:04:05 No.1943

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>>1937
Whatever it is, it is something that is taller than the crater.

03/11/15 (Wed) 03:23:23 No.1945

>>1937
It's proof of the existence of the Almighty Allah.

03/13/15 (Fri) 13:43:11 No.1957

>>1933
Yeah pretty much this, >>1930

03/14/15 (Sat) 01:54:58 No.1959

>>1945
Odin ackbar
We get it.
Sheesh!

03/15/15 (Sun) 00:42:22 No.1964

>>1930
>new star discovered only 7 light years away
Got sorce on this? I am interested

03/15/15 (Sun) 11:05:48 No.1969

>>1964

The star is surprisingly close: it ranks as the fourth-closest star system to Earth’s sun at 7.2 light-years away (the closest star system, Alpha Centauri, is four light-years away).

“It’s very exciting to discover a new neighbor of our solar system that is so close,” said Kevin Luhman, a Pennsylvania State University astronomer. “And given its extreme temperature, it should tell us a lot about the atmospheres of planets, which often have similarly cold temperatures.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/nasa-finds-coldest-star-ever-as-chilly-as-the-arctic/

03/15/15 (Sun) 14:25:28 No.1970

>>1969
This is quite a discovery, I'm surprised I missed hearing about it.

06/11/15 (Thu) 17:33:46 No.2558

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Maybe it's a recent impact by an icy comet or something?

06/12/15 (Fri) 02:53:29 No.2562

>>2558

I doubt it given the energies involved of a highly elliptic comet crashing into a drawf planet

06/12/15 (Fri) 15:48:32 No.2567

>>2558

What could possibly be this reflective? It almost seems to be glowing.

These are true color images right?

06/14/15 (Sun) 01:51:28 No.2580

>>2567

Maybe it's aluminum or some kind of reflective metal, maybe silver oxide?

06/16/15 (Tue) 07:30:19 No.2594

>>2558

Aluminium? Secret Soviet lander?

06/17/15 (Wed) 21:05:43 No.2598

>>2594

Are the commies to blame?

>>2558

Dammit we should've brought a lander with us to explore Ceres but noooooo, it's not like landers have made groundbreaking discoveries or anything. Does Ceres have a magnetosphere, and with it, a molten core? If so, that ice could have melted into water where life can evolve. Maybe Ceresians exist if this is true.

06/21/15 (Sun) 05:59:16 No.2609

>>2598

Relax dude, ceres is smaller than enceladus which only has sub ocean because of dione, and unless there is super weird shit then I think its solid to the core

06/21/15 (Sun) 06:00:47 No.2610

>tfw you won't be alive when ceres is moved into martian orbit becoming a moon.