Dawn Is Approaching,

that is of course the spacecraft,

as it approaching Ceres, a dwarf planet that’s been lurking in the asteroid belt, we mentioned the approach a few times in the past, on  Wednesday, 28 January and on Sunday, 25 January, as it approaches, Dawn has been snapping some amazing images of the rock, and it just took some of its highest-resolution photographs yet, NASA turned them into a movie, a spinning recreation of what most of Ceres’ surface looks like, the images were taken when Dawn was 90,000 miles away; they have a resolution of 8.5 miles per pixel, making them the sharpest photos yet of the dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn will enter orbit around Ceres in March, to hopefully learn more about the rock I guess we should call it, with a diameter of 590 miles, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, a though it’s both an asteroid and a dwarf planet, some scientist think it may actually be worthy of full planet status, so until they make up their minds, a rock.