Doc Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 It is an amazing image. If only I was a geologist. Do you think that is a crater or a raised plateau? My reasoning is if you look at the crater in the NE corner of the white crater it appears to be beneath the white crater. So it's either: 1. The impact of the white crater appeared later then the NE crater. 2. It's a plateau formed from a volcanic eruption which filled some of the NE crater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 It's a star party and some idiot's left his headlights on. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hey......i see my little thread i started back in February has reached 'Hot' status Thats a first for me. But i'm still wondering 'Whats going off on Ceres then' ? Also, just learnt that Dawn will be descending still further, reaching 1450km by early August. What with this and the New Horizons missions, i think we'll be in for a treat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyaardvark Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 That is an amazing image... It is an amazing image. If only I was a geologist. Do you think that is a crater or a raised plateau? My reasoning is if you look at the crater in the NE corner of the white crater it appears to be beneath the white crater. So it's either: 1. The impact of the white crater appeared later then the NE crater. 2. It's a plateau formed from a volcanic eruption which filled some of the NE crater. Your right about the age of the respective craters. They use that idea to relatively age some rocks but to look at it I am pretty confident it's a crater rather than a plateau. Not that I am an expert of course. I am surprised we are not hearing a few more ideas about what this may be especially with images like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Looks very much like something has come in and whacked Ceres to expose the ice/white under surface. There seems to be a faint dark fan shape eminating from the possible impact region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) The brighter material might be whats left of an impactor rather than from the body of Ceres. It may well be something like water ice or comet remains, which has just gone splat on the surface and might not have had enough velocity to have the energy to make a crater of it's own. As for the cryo-vulcanism, it's a possibility, but it's not gravationally locked with a larger body to cause enough movement within the asteroid as Enceladus and Io are. But then stranger things happen. It's amazing imagery. I can't wait to see what Pluto looks like. Edited June 13, 2015 by BAZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Ceres bright spots update It is still unclear what the bright spots are on Ceres, but the Dawn spacecraft has now dropped down to a closer orbit... After orbiting the asteroid for 15 days at 13,600 kilometres, looping over Ceres night time hemisphere, it has entered its second phase dropping down to 4,400 kilometres on June 6th, orbiting Ceres every 3 days. Daylight is now enabling Dawn to see and photograph Ceres surface better. The only consensus is that the material is highly reflective and may be ice, or salt deposits etc. so watch this space... http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/bright-spots-shine-in-newest-dawn-ceres-images Johnnyaardvark and catman161 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 Another animation from Ceres. Get your 3D glasses out !! >https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=83&v=Inc9BtRip04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Nice update Rob, fascinating stuff! 👠The 4 mile high peak looks like a volcano! The majority of the surface of Ceres appears very dark. The white areas look like recently disturbed areas, exposing a more reflective substance underneath... But it's odd they should lie in the centre of an old crater and on one side of the peak of the 'volcano' etc... Intriguing to say the least! 😗 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Ok then.......more news from the Dawn spacecraft currently circling Dwarf Planet Ceres. How about this for an image ? I think its just breath-taking. Blown away by this story. But it looks like the mysterious spots may be frozen CO2 deposits.....? Do correct me if i'm wrong. Isn't CO2 known as 'Dry ice' ? This is the stuff that sublimates, i.e. goes straight from a solid to a gas as it warms up, if i remember my school chemistry days. The image looks to me to show areas where over time sublimation has occurred. Here's the link to the full page on the Nasa website. href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19889'>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19889 All fascinating stuff. Whats the general consensus ?? At least i think we can now rule out an advanced alien base........ Johnnyaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) btw, sorry, but i don't seem to be able to get a bigger image to upload ?? Flickr is only giving me a 'medium' 800 / 600 option ?? Not sure why ? Edited September 10, 2015 by Bino-viewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Take 2.............. 10344126_874164365952359_1065757602007585942_o Tweedledee, M. and Werisit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Looks like flour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Interesting to see the impact site, it looks a lot more uniform to the left :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyaardvark Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 What an image! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Though i'd resurrect my old Ceres thread. Here's a recent recap from Nasa of whats been happening on the Dawn mission. Tweedledee and Smithysteve 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) Occator crater close up.... But........this last one blew me away when i saw it What an amazing image. Wow ! Edited March 25, 2016 by Bino-viewer Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Cheers Rob. Absolutely mind blowing pictures from what is currently a 9th magnitude, 0.3 arcsecond dot as seen from Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Thanks for the update Rob? There have been some amazing achievements over the last year, what with the pluto flyby, the Rosetta mission to 67P, this Ceres mission... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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