What is That Mysterious White Blob on Ceres?

[Skywizard]

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A mysterious white spot can be seen in the newest images from NASA's Dawn space telescope,
which is rapidly approaching the dwarf planet.


A strange, flickering white blotch found on the dwarf planet Ceres by a NASA spacecraft has
scientists scratching their heads.

The white spot on Ceres in a series of new photos taken on Jan. 13 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is rapidly approaching the round dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But when the initial photo release on Monday (Jan. 19), the Dawn scientists gave no indication of what the white dot might be.

"Yes, we can confirm that it is something on Ceres that reflects more sunlight, but what that is remains a mystery," Marc Rayman, mission director and chief engineer for the Dawn mission, told Space.com in an email.

The new images show areas of light and dark on the face of Ceres, which indicate surface features like craters. But at the moment, none of the specific features can be resolved, including the white spot.

"We do not know what the white spot is, but it's certainly intriguing," Rayman said. "In fact, it makes you want to send a spacecraft there to find out, and of course that is exactly what we are doing! So as Dawn brings Ceres into sharper focus, we will be able to see with exquisite detail what [the white spot] is."

Ceres is a unique object in our solar system. It is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is classified as an asteroid. It is simultaneously classified as a dwarf planet, and at 590 miles across (950 kilometers, or about the size of Texas), Ceres is the smallest known dwarf planet in the solar system.

The $466 million Dawn spacecraft is set to enter into orbit around Ceres on March 6. Dawn left Earth in 2007 and in the summer of 2011, it made a year-long pit stop at the asteroid Vesta, the second largest object in the asteroid belt.

While Vesta shared many properties with our solar system's inner planets, scientists with the Dawn mission suspect that Ceres has more in common with the outer most planets. 25 percent of Ceres' mass is thought to be composed of water, which would mean the space rock contains even more fresh water than Earth. Scientists have observed water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Ceres, which may erupt from volcano-like ice geysers.

The mysterious white spot captured by the Dawn probe is one more curious feature of this already intriguing object.



Source: http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/what-is-that-mysterious-white-blob-on-ceres-150124.htm



peace...

[lizfrench]

According to Tolec at andromedacouncil.com Ceres is something other than a "dwarf planet." Here is the down-low according to the Andromeda Council contacts: This alleged dwarf planet Ceres (pronounced: Series) is really a manufactured "biosphere".

Ceres has an elliptical orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter.

And, yes, there is 3D life 'on' this biosphere. They are known as the Paxaltaleka (pronounced: Paxahl-ta-leka). These people live on the interior of the planet, one might say 'underground' in large & small cities. They wish to live this way to keep the surface of the planet pristine.
They live in complete peace, a simple, agrarian society, by choice... approximately 50,000 years ahead of Earth people in all aspects of their lives including a 'masters' level of awareness & knowledge of "spirit" based, aka, literal "spiritual" life. They are very warm & loving, willing to share all they know of life with people of other worlds. They have never known or experienced "war", never.There are also 4D people Thaxalplata (pronounced: Thaxahl-pla-tah) and 5D people Xanxalakal (pronounced: Zaxa-la-kahl). These 4th & 5th dimension people live on the surface.

For the 3D humanoid dwellers who live underground in cities inside this biosphere, they have synthetic, crystalized lighting which very much mimics sun light which they use to grow vegetables to eat. These people are completely vegetarian. Their internal energy source, something much like a “sun”, in the core of this biosphere disperses & distributes its energy throughout and around the planet giving it a warm atmosphere & temperate climate. It's temperatures range in the mid-70s to low 80s (F).
And therefore, these 3D people do come to play on the surface of the 'planet' where they have many natural parks & huge fresh water oceans, both on the surface as well as all throughout below the planet surface. The water is crystal clear and dark blue in color.
These people are very pale in skin coloring, their hair is fiery red color, their eyes are pale yellowish/green with yellow flecks in it. Their ears are 'bobbed'/pointed much like fictional "Vulcans" from "Star Trek". Because they are vegetarians they are 'light weight' in terms of density, and their height ranges from 3' tall to 7' tall. Their clothes are formed by wearing various large leaves of the plants they grow on the interior of their planet, though they do not need to be sown, these plants simply weave together. The men wear mid-length garments similar to Roman or Greek "togas" & the women wear long flowing dresses down to their ankles.
This biosphere has a breathable atmosphere with also a very fine particle 'mist', with an electromagnetic force field, that surrounds and protects this red, Sedona like, planet which looks this way due to the high concentration of iron oxide in its makeup.

[DarMar]

a new distraction

[Lifebringer]

They're full of it and act like there's no self focus on the telescopes for sharper picture. I get disc\gusted by them when they do this.

[Star Tsar]

Here is an answer from an Alien from Andromeda (@ 4:20) I cannot say if it is accurate or not!

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[Carmody]

http://www.stargazing.net/David/software/index.html

Telescope imaging processing software.

available for $50.

Lots of different software packages.

Teranex hardware. Available since the ...uhm..late 80's. for processing..you guessed it.... satellite imagery. Came out of black ops. built the exact same way as the telescope imaging software, but done about 40 years earlier.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/teranex

So they give you a single pixelated image, but have probably taken 100's of images (very sharp,no atmospheric interference like land based telescopes--it makes the space telescopes far more effective for their size)...which they could have used $50 software on and increased the image fidelity by a factor of 10x.....but instead give you nothing.... and call it 'here's your picture of ceres!"

Complete utter horse****.

Here's images taken with 8" telescopes, from the ground, under very suboptimal conditions, that have been processed by what is fundamentally..$50 software.

http://s1.hubimg.com/u/3827290_f520.jpg

Now, if they had, lets say... a 1.5" telescope, in space, beside the earth (in orbit), it could do about the same.

Reading the data (wiki), it says they have a 20mm telescope on the craft? what? are they kidding? That is ridiculous for a 2005 design satellite (launched in 2007), even within the idea of any given cost/weight/space restraints. I'm not sure I believe that, especially since it looks like it was built by Lockheed martin (orbital sciences)

At that point we look to the ex-head of Lockheed martin's skunk works, Ben rich, and hear his voice, from 1993:

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black ops is running 22nd and 23rd century propulsion, energy (over unity) and space technology (anti-gravity) (dimensional shifting).

As a matter of fact and record, it looks like Lockheed Martin wanted total control of the Dawn mission, to the point that they literally offered to make it for free, for zero profit, in order to get that total control. And they did. So we can be fairly sure that nothing startling will ever come out of this Dawn mission, with that kind of set of hands in the mix.