With our ever closer looks at Ceres ’ control surface , we ’ve been hoping to get confining enough to finally see a bit more about where those two closed book light splotches were come from . Well , now we have . And , it turns out that we were wrong about one very canonic fact : There were not two of them .
There were in reality mass and bunch .
After take a flavor at the surface from 8,400 miles out ( the closest look yet),NASA scientist reported back two thing : One , that the two shiny position were in reality composed of many small-scale shining spots , and , two , that their brightness was due to sunlight . master investigator Christopher Russell noted :
Dawn scientist can now conclude that the acute brightness of these spots is due to the reflection of sunlight by highly reflective cloth on the aerofoil , perchance frosting .
Of of course , even though we now know how , the question of what it is — sparkler ? space volcano ? thousands of little Ceres roverbots equip in their own tinfoil hat ? ( NOTE : it is not that last one ) — still continue . Until our next closest feeling , at least .
prototype : Ceres in rotation with each pixel signify .8 miles /NASA / JPL - Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA .
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