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The Dawn spacecraft is a few weeks away from being captured into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. As the spacecraft inches nearer, its latest images of the dwarf planet show that it is ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, designed and built by Orbital ATK, has returned the sharpest images yet of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, revealing that the planetary body's bright spot has a similar companion bright area. So far, these unusual areas ...