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EARTHDATE: August 30, 2015

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REAL LIFE NEWS: CLOSE-UP PICTURES OF CERES

by Hazed

The Dawn spacecraft, which is orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, has sent back pictures showing its closest views yet. The ship is currently 1,470km (913 miles) above the surface, and its camera’s resolution is at 140 metres per pixel.

One of the pictures shows the Gaue crater, named, as NASA explained, “After a Germanic goddess to whom offerings are made in harvesting rye.”

Ceres has many features named after minor deities that have an agricultural connection, which is appropriate since Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture.

Other images show a mountain ridge and a strange, shiny, 6km high conical mountain, neither of which has been named yet. Let’s hope there are enough agriculture-related mythical creatures whose names can be used.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/25/nasa_dawn_ceres_snaps/

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