New gif image on Ceres nightclub

[Horn]

Closer shots available on next month's pass

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA19547.gif

[BrewTech]

I'm sure that night club rocks.

[Horn]

I'm sure that night club rocks. on ice?

I have no idea how they conclude that to be ice, I'm reading ice can reflect some 40% of the light thrown at it.

That thing appears to throw 200% back at you. Even when rising over the Horizon...it is immediately visible with no variance.

If they had some low light darkside shots it would be interesting to see.

[Serpo]

so what do you think the white spots are.................


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=25&v=84vz6J8cnc8






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NASA's New Images Of Our First Asteroid, Ceres, Sheds Light On Its Greatest Mystery Comment Now (http://www.forbes.com/sites/ethansiegel/2015/05/13/nasas-new-images-of-our-first-asteroid-ceres-sheds-light-on-its-greatest-mystery/#comment_reply) Follow Comments



At the dawn of the 19th century, the astronomy community was still reeling from William Herschel’s 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first planet discovered beyond the six (including Earth) naked-eye worlds orbiting the Sun known for millennia. While most of astronomy had consisted of star-watching, comet hunting and the cataloguing of deep-sky objects, there was a new pursuit just coming into its own: the hunt for new, permanent objects in our Solar System. It was on New Year’s Day, 1801, that Italian Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi) discovered something truly wonderful, that caused him to write the following:

“I have announced this star as a comet, but since it is not accompanied by any nebulosity and, further, since its movement is so slow and rather uniform, it has occurred to me several times that it might be something better than a comet. But I have been careful not to advance this supposition to the public.”
What he discovered wasn’t, in fact, a new planet, which is what Piazzi’s great hope actually was, but rather the first and largest object in what would turn out to be the asteroid belt: Ceres (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29).
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/ethansiegel/files/2015/05/Ceres_optimized.jpg Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park).

For over a decade, the best images we had of this tiny world — massive enough to be pulled into a sphere, but no bigger than the state of Texas — came from the Hubble Space Telescope (above), which even at closest approach was some 300,000,000 kilometers distant. NASA decided to change all of that with the launch of the Dawn spacecraft (http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/), designed to map and study two of the most massive and most intriguing objects in the asteroid belt: Ceres and Vesta, which is (just barely) the third-largest asteroid, losing out to Pallas by the tiniest of margins.
Dawn observed Vesta first, over a two year period from 2011-2012, constructing a mosaic and 3-D map of the world unlike anything else ever seen for an asteroid.
Then, it was on towards Ceres. Ceres is farther out than Vesta, some 75 million km more distant from the Sun, and hence, colder. While both worlds were expected to be littered with craters, Vesta — at least on its “day” side — gets warm enough and has little enough gravity that any water-ice that would’ve formed on the surface gets sublimated almost instantly. Not only does it turn into vapor, but the surface gravity of Vesta is low enough that it’s insufficient to hold these gaseous, energetic water molecules onto its surface, and they escape away. The mere effect of sunlight is enough to give these particles, even at such great distances from the Sun, enough speed to overcome gravity’s pull.
Which is why Dawn’s latest discoveries — on Ceres here in 2015 — are so puzzling.
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/ethansiegel/files/2015/05/PIA19547-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-RC3-AnimationFrame25-20150504.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.


Sure, Ceres is significantly larger, more massive and somewhat farther away from the Sun than Vesta is. But is that really sufficient to explain these “white spots” at the bottom of what appears to be perhaps the largest crater on Ceres? Right now, there are three leading possible explanations:



This is, in fact, water-ice. Frozen water at the bottom of this crater, quite surprisingly, remains stable, even in direct sunlight, even near the equator. This rocky, giant asteroid can stably hold onto this ice, even over billions of years.
This is some other form of ice: perhaps frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), which has a higher molecular weight than water does. In some ways, this would be even more surprising, since even though it’s more difficult for it to reach escape velocity, dry ice sublimates at a much lower temperature than water does.
This is some solid, rock-like feature that simply has a different reflectivity (or albedo) than the rest of the asteroid. This could be intrinsic to Ceres (its version of bedrock) or it could have been from material brought to Ceres by an impact.

Whichever of these explanations proves correct — and the leading idea is presently the water-ice option — it’s important to recognize that Dawn is only beginning its mission at Ceres. Currently orbiting at a distance of 13,600 kilometers off of the asteroid’s surface, or some forty times more distant than the International Space Station is from Earth’s surface, Dawn will descend over the coming months, mapping out Ceres with a variety of instruments, and learning the elemental composition of this material. Sure, the images Dawn has taken so far (http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn/pia19547/ceres-rc3-animation) are spectacular, but there’s so much more to come.
The biggest surprise on this world, of a bright, reflected light at the bottom of its deepest crater, is going to be explained by the very device that discovered the anomaly in the first place. In the most serendipitous of ways, this is a prime example of what science is all about!
Ethan Siegel is the writer and founder of Starts With A Bang (https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang), and professor of physics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. His first book, Beyond the Galaxy, is due out later this year.



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[Horn]

Ponce De Leon's fountain of youth?

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7555&stc=1

Look at the contrast on event horizon light (upper left corner) radiates?,

I say the group and form appears viscous "filament" type of creamy liquid to me.

[osoab]

Diamond Mountain or Reynolds Wrap?

[Serpo]

Ponce De Leon's fountain of youth?

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7555&stc=1

Look at the contrast on event horizon light (upper left corner) radiates?,

I say the group and form appears viscous "filament" type of creamy liquid to me.


I dont think its one of those gay traffic lights

[Serpo]

Update: May 12, 2015 - More Recent Image of Mysterious
Ceres Bright Spots: Now 7. Instead of two bright spots, there are now seven
and the source is still unknown.
An Earthfiles viewer has applied Corel Photo-Paint X7 to one of the rotating video frames in the hot link below and enhanced the bright spots in the Ceres crater that have persisted for 10 years since the first Hubble photo. He enlarged the spots crater by 400%. “I did not apply any enhancements to the image, and in fact, I found that sharpening techniques did not reveal anything more interesting than the raw images (in NASA animated video frames).”
https://www.earthfiles.com/images/news/C/CeresSevenSpots051215.jpg
May 9, 2015: Ceres mysterious bright spots imaged from a new
altitude of 8,450 miles (13,600 km) above the surface of the dwarf planet
by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Dawn is moving down to a lower mapping orbit
by June 6, 2015, when the spacecraft will be 2,734 miles (4,400 km) above
the surface craters with even sharper resolution of the
mysterious bright spots. See AstronomyNow (http://astronomynow.com/2015/04/07/dawn-spacecraft-prepares-to-image-dwarfplanet-ceres-in-detail/). Image by NASA/JPL. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html)
See updated NASA animated video frames of rotating Ceres.
(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA19547.gif)Also see: Earthfiles YouTube News about Ceres Mystery Bright Spots. (https://youtu.be/SkHh6FTKPYg)

https://www.earthfiles.com/index.php

[Neuro]

Either it is the gates of hell. Or it's the elusive krematorium of a Nazi death camp? I guess Ceres is considered too small to have a magma filled core (just like the Moon), and thus couldn't have a gigantic volcano in that crater...

[Horn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqh-mGsao3Y

[Horn]

http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7881&stc=1

Cast your vote on NASA site. what is the material on Ceres?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4697

[Horn]

Funny daboo7 in the previous video thinks NASA has delivered confusion, these guys think they delivered everything clear as day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vtuyO1r7Oc

[Ponce]

Horn? shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't want any visitors.

V

[Horn]

Horn? shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't want any visitors.

V

That's been known to the universe since 05 :)

[Dogman]

Horn? shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't want any visitors.

V Bet when you look into a mirror , do you see one two many !

;D

[Cebu_4_2]

Looks like they have an up and coming competitor slightly North and to the east of the main club. Could be they are segregated. What if it is actually a prison with bright lights to prevent the inmates from escaping? I wonder what they could have done... talked too loudly about the Jews?

[Horn]

I going to have to flag that last post as in violation of the prime directive.

[Horn]

All these worlds are yours


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvH8fiM3ZGo

[Cebu_4_2]

so what do you think the white spots are.................

Ask Bill Clinton or his wife?