English: PIA19589: Dawn Survey Orbit Image 21 - CROP - "Bright Spot 1"

UPLOADER NOTES (Drbogdan (留言) 16:43, 7 July 2015 (UTC)):

Cropped original image - from 1024x1024/152KB to 624x624/71.3KB (with JASC Paint Shop Pro v6.02) - to better compare with similar images of "Bright Spots" (ie, w:File:PIA19568-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-BrightSpots-2ndMappingOrbit-20150606.jpg)

ORIGINAL IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19589

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was taken on June 17, 2015. A bright area called "Spot 1" can be seen in this image.

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgments, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.

For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.