This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots.
The
bright spots are much brighter than the rest of Ceres' surface, and
tend to appear overexposed in most images. This view is a composite of
two images of Occator: one using a short exposure that captures the
detail in the bright spots, and one where the background surface is
captured at normal exposure.
The images were obtained by Dawn
during the mission's High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) phase, from
which the spacecraft imaged the surface at a resolution of about 450
feet (140 meters) per pixel.
Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of
the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall
Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed
and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck
Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the
Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on
the mission team.
Source - NASA
