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What? No Ceres thread?
The closest thing we have to an alium planet?

>> No.7252014

there's not much to talk about, unfortunately. info is coming in chapters as dawn delivers photos in intervals. it's still getting closer to the Ceres, however. I personally think no more than 3 or 4 days before we can see something more exciting.

>> No.7252020

bump

>> No.7252037

its nothing man why are you so excited to see it ? it has a moon like structure, no life, no air, nothing. It's obviously not a reflectin or ice that would make a hot spot like that, but ypou know that it's not going to be an alien ship either.

>> No.7252041

Yesterday I went to one of the I C Ceres events (in Arizona). There were some new images from RC3, showing several large basins on the surface, including one with evidence of newer surface on the inside, possibly cryovolcanism or some other process flowed new material into the basin some time ago.

Additionally, looking at the cracks visible on the surface, some of them, including those running very near to the famous spots, radiate from one of the basins. It is bossible that these are rifts that allow volitiles from deeper in the body to move to the surface, as we saw earlier in the eruption with Herschel. The two spots there are actually rather more than two spots, but the images still have been saturated that all the possible detail are not yet avaliable.

There are some other anomolous bright features, some that look like crater rays, both dark and bright.

>> No.7252048

>>7252037
>It's obviously not a reflectin or ice
[citation needed]

>hot spot like that,
Hot spot? Where did you hear this? Infared imaging is too low resolution at the present to really say the temperature of this spot at present, but all I have heard suggests that it may be about the same as the sorrounding surface if anything.

>> No.7252054

>>7252002
>alium
/xcg/ detected

>> No.7252196

>>7252048
latest news say one spot is at ambient and one is hot
curiouser and curiouser
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27328

>> No.7252198

>>7252196
> hot
disregard that, I suck dicks
I meant cold

>> No.7252223
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>>7252014
It's not getting closer just yet. Dawn has been holding in its Rotation Characterization 3 orbit for several days, and has taken quite a few images of the dwarf planet. The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research simply hasn't released them (read, the bright spots pictures everyone's waiting for) to the public yet.

The spacecraft will be spiraling down to a lower orbit fairly soon.

>> No.7252266
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So we all have some idea when and where this mission is going.

>> No.7252272
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This older sequence from OpNav 7 is still the best public image we have of the bright spots.

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Frame by frame breakdown of the OpNav7 bright spots sequence.

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Every released image of Ceres' south pole captured during Rotation Characterization 3.

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>>7252002
>tfw you will never live in the year 2192 and operate a station on Ceres were space pirates can hang out after robbing colonist ships en route to Mars.

>> No.7252336

What if it turned out to be a broken down alien ship signalling for help? After all that is exactly how Westerners made first contact with the Japanese; Some Japanese fishermen made contact with a bunch of stranded Portuguese sailors on the island of Tshushima in 1542.

>> No.7252342
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>>7252048
Spot 1 is a higher-than-average albedo region of Ceres, that is measurably colder than the surrounding, darker landscape because of the increased percentage of reflected sunlight...

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>>7252048
>>7252342
Spot 5, which is the location of *the* Bright Spots, has no visible thermal gradient relative to the surrounding landscape. Despite its small size, a reflective feature, especially one as bright as the Ceres Bright Spots, should be, visibly, substantially colder.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)#Ceres_orbit

>> No.7252401

>>7252336
OK but that's stupid.
Why did they design their ship to be a large semi-spherical lump of dust and rock. I'm ashamed I even responded to this post......

Or did you just mean the bright spot and not Ceres as a whole? Well it's not like alien ships are the only thing in the universe that can be reflective, it could simply be ice. If it was an alien ship wouldn't they have a better way of signaling for assistance rather than flashes of light like some WWI scout with a hand mirror?