Ceres Mountains

NASA’s newly released video provides viewers with a flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from the Dawn spacecraft. It shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials, as well as showcasing the most prominent craters, such as Occator, and the tall, conical mountain Ahuna Mons. Dawn is the first mission to visit Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft is currently in its final and lowest mapping orbit, at approximately 240-miles from the surface. Click here to view the first image in this week’s funny internet trolls gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of droneboarding.

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