This has been quite a year for NASA and the Ceres dwarf planet in particular.  Aside from the mystery bright spots and other findings, they now have an awesome new topical map!

Slowly but surely the mysteries of dwarf planet Ceres are being peeled back layer by layer as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbits lower and lower and gathers detailed measurements that have now yielded global mineral and topographic maps, tantalizing researchers with the best resolution ever.

Let’s find out more on the significance of this map on page 2

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