Poll Down delivered new dwarf planet Ceres photos. Photography has a resolution of 14 km per pixel. This is so far the most accurate and sharpest picture taken that object.

Dawn probe was
launched 27 September 2007. In the first half of 2011. object entered orbit the asteroid Vesta. He watched her until September 2012. September 5 this year, the probe flew toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Per month, March 6, should be complete operation of its entry into orbit.


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Ceres circulates in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Has a diameter of 950 km. Its surface is covered by a large amount of ice, in which – according to some scientists – may be a water reservoir.


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