NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures sharpest images ever of Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has recently captured the sharpest images ever seen of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, it has been revealed. The images were taken 147,000 miles from Ceres on January 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft that soon will become the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has recently captured the sharpest images ever seen of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, it has been revealed. The images were taken 147,000 miles from Ceres on January 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft that soon will become the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet.At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30% higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometres). The resolution was higher because Dawn is travelling through the solar system to Ceres, while Hubble remains fixed in Earth orbit.