What Did They Just Discover on Vesta and Ceres? – Update

Whoa!  Did you hear about this?

The last year has been one of NASA’s most insane ever.  There was a lot of cool pics and new info that came in over the last ten years.  One fascinating bit of info is regarding Vesta and Ceres:

Dawn, the speedy ion-drive spacecraft, left Earth in 2007 bound for Vesta and Ceres in the Asteroid Belt. These are no ordinary asteroids. Scientists see them as tiny, still born planets. They sent Dawn out to fly around them, map them, and look for evidence that will transport them to very early days of our solar system.

Btw there had been a debate for a while if Ceres was a moon or dwarf planet.  Here is the latest on that.

Official designation is now “Dwarf Planet” status. To be a moon means it must be orbiting a primary that is either a full or dwarf planet. If also a dwarf, the one whose common orbital center is furthest is the moon.

Can you guess what they found on this latest mission?

And check out news on an update in regards to their next visit in the region!

Let’s check out a video with footage of these unusual formations on page 2

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45 Comments

  1. Daniel Goodwin said:

    If your not going to tell me on one page then don’t even bother sharing. You eat away at my data for more ad exposure when nobody even looks at the ads. Fyl

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  24. Matt Dimbylow said:

    “Strict planetary protection rules forbids us from sending earth microbes to other planets” how long has this protocol been in existence? Because it’s already too late for Mars and our moon and I’m not sure about Venus either ( did Russia sterilize its Venera missions?)

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  27. Trick Icarus said:

    I love to click next page to get dissapointed in having high hopes that your header accually meant what the bs article was about. I’m going to keep hoping you’ll stop being a fucking idiot, and your going to keep wasting my time. Put your fucking video and the whole article on one fucking page you fucking fairy. Douchbag fuckedface dried up stinky dicklicker.

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