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In reply to the discussion: Closest view yet of Ceres! ..... holy shit, it IS an alien mining operation [View all]Baclava
(12,047 posts)24. If NASA calls it swamp gas, we're really in trouble
Dwarf planet Ceres' bright spots shrink but stay strange on approach
Ceres appears to have a pair of cosmic headlights reflecting the sun. As NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches, they're looking smaller, but no less mysterious.
It's a cosmic mystery unfolding in agonizing slow motion. As NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, a series of weird, reflective bright spots have started to shrink as they resolve into clearer focus, but they haven't become any less odd and inexplicable.
http://www.cnet.com/news/dwarf-planet-ceres-bright-spots-shrink-but-stay-strange-on-approach/
Ceres appears to have a pair of cosmic headlights reflecting the sun. As NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches, they're looking smaller, but no less mysterious.
It's a cosmic mystery unfolding in agonizing slow motion. As NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaches Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, a series of weird, reflective bright spots have started to shrink as they resolve into clearer focus, but they haven't become any less odd and inexplicable.
http://www.cnet.com/news/dwarf-planet-ceres-bright-spots-shrink-but-stay-strange-on-approach/
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Closest view yet of Ceres! ..... holy shit, it IS an alien mining operation [View all]
Baclava
May 2015
OP
gotta love this headline - "NASA Releases Best Images Ever of "Alien Lights" on Ceres"
Baclava
May 2015
#32
It seems there are several areas with a "brightness." The kicked-up theory seems
Eleanors38
May 2015
#44
Freepers are claiming that Obama made NASA build a safe to hide his birth certificate.
Exilednight
May 2015
#34