A new video produced by NASA shows a detailed animation of some of the most dramatic features on the dwarf planet Ceres. The data used to create this video was beamed back to Earth by the Dawn spacecraft, which is currently exploring the small world, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn is the first human-made probe to visit Ceres.
The colors of Ceres' craters
seen in the video aren't exactly the colors you might see when flying
above the dwarf planet yourself. Scientists use these kinds of enhanced
color views to bring out the differences in surface features on the
world, NASA said.
"The simulated
overflight shows the wide range of crater shapes that we have
encountered on Ceres," Ralf Jaumann, a Dawn mission scientist said in a statement.
"The viewer can observe the sheer walls of the crater Occator, and also
Dantu and Yalode, where the craters are a lot flatter."
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