Nasa Probe Snaps Stunning New Views Of Dwarf Planet Ceres

's Dawn spacecraft has taken the sharpest-ever photos of Ceres, just a month before slipping into orbit around the mysterious dwarf StoriesNASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres: What Is It? 's Dawn gets its best glimpse yet of dwarf planet Ceres CNETDwarf Planet Ceres Reveals Tantalizing Details in Best Photos Yet 's Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Dwarf Planet PR NewswireDawn captured the new Ceres images Wednesday (Feb. 4), when the probe was 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and the night of March 5, Dawn will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Ceres and the first to circle two different solar system bodies beyond Earth. (Dawn orbited the protoplanet Vesta, the asteroid belt's second-largest denizen, from July 2011 through September 2012.) [Amazing Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres]"It's very exciting," Dawn mission director and chief engineer Marc Rayman, who's based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said of Dawn's impending arrival at Ceres. "This is a truly unique world, something that we've never seen before."

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