Those are your questions. My question is my question. In 200,000 years of humans asking questions, the "real" question has never been asked.


PairTheBoard

Your question is quite easy to answer. One minute and 47 seconds would be considered quite elite.

Reminds me of that classic song, "Yards in a Bottle".


PairTheBoard

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
They were answered by you

That was "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, which has as much to do with Ceres as Zeno's supposition that the white spots were nazi cocaine.

It's obvious that Ceres has an ocean of latinum. We must control this to assure we survive the Ferengi onslaught.

Congrats for the most on topic post for a while.

Probably just the lights from an MGM casino/hotel.

First color map of Ceres surface.

Dwarf planet Ceres reveals surface secrets in NASA color map:

http://www.cnet.com/news/dwarf-plane...asa-color-map/


From the above link:


Dawn's earliest views of Ceres were in black and white, showing us a rocky, pockmarked body. Some unusual bright spots showed in these images, giving scientists plenty to ponder as Dawn moved closer to its goal. Researchers shared Dawn's first color map of Ceres, a fascinating enhanced-color image designed to highlight a variety of surface features.

"This dwarf planet was not just an inert rock throughout its history. It was active, with processes that resulted in different materials in different regions. We are beginning to capture that diversity in our color images," said Chris Russell, Dawn mission principal investigator.

Scientists believe Ceres is composed of 25 percent water ice by mass. Its most noticeable features are the many craters across the surface. The color map is one tool researchers are using to sleuth out Dawn's history and how impact craters affect the makeup of the surface. The investigation is still in the early stages.

Ceres' bright spots still remain shrouded in mystery, but answers may soon be forthcoming as Dawn enters a new phase in its study of the dwarf planet starting on April 23. It will be within just 8,400 miles of the surface at that time. This will provide scientists with a set of higher-resolution images to work with.

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Dawn's history ?

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/189386/Eos

From above link:

Eos, (Greek), Roman Aurora, in Greco-Roman mythology, the personification of the dawn. According to the Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony, she was the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia and sister of Helios, the sun god, and Selene, the moon goddess. By the Titan Astraeus she was the mother of the winds Zephyrus, Notus, and Boreas, and of Hesperus (the Evening Star) and the other stars; by Tithonus of Assyria she was the mother of Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, who was slain by Achilles at Troy. She bears in Homer’s works the epithet Rosy-Fingered.

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It's a new Dawn on knowledge about Ceres.

Not only color photos, but infrared as well



dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/Ceres_science_gallery.asp

Here the spots are again. Apparently they exist!

One looks like an exclam. If it's ice why hasn't it sublimated?

Why have they deleted the newest photos from the gallery?

I can smell a rat here.

I told you guys, there's a ****load of latinum up there.

NASA has removed all the warp drive stuff from the advanced propulsion pages.

I'll bet it's the Vulcans holding us back again.

So Ceres is a Ferengi trading post and those lights are homing beacons?

In the hype, let's not forget about Vesta.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news-detail.html?id=4531

Explore(d) it.

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- citizen scientist plaaynde

Can't even get Spock to put a word in for us anymore

He'd loved this thread. RIP.


Last pictures were from April 20. Stay tuned, there must be a reason we haven't got any after that. There should already be massively better ones. Don't they know what to do with the pixels streaming in? Maybe they are fighting on how to "enhance" the photos?

I'm even prepared to ask the question: Do the white spots exist? Or could it be they are using every earlier data in the updates, so an original flaw stays?

So are they in the "Survey" portion of the mission at this point? I think the latest update is from 8,500 miles out(?) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/blog/2015/4/...ience-at-ceres

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4582

More info from this website:

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/11/nas...g-pics-of.html

From above link:

What were initially thought to be just a couple of brilliant, closely spaced features at one location now turn out to be a clutch of many smaller dots. The latest pictures were acquired by the US space agency's Dawn spacecraft on its first full science orbit since arriving at Ceres on 6 March. The spots were seen from a distance of 13,600km.

Researchers on the mission concede they still have much to learn about the dots' true nature, but the new data is hardening their ideas.

"Dawn scientists can now conclude that the intense brightness of these spots is due to the reflection of sunlight by highly reflective material on the surface, possibly ice," said Chris Russell, who is the principal investigator on the mission.
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Latest data, same I think that is linked to in post #149 just above.