Since we can’ take flight over far-off worlds, NASA’s doing it for us.
NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released new colourful animation of a flyby over the dwarf planet Ceres.
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The images were provided by the Dawn spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Ceres since March 2015.
The beautiful animation takes us over craters and an impressive six-kilometre-high mountain called Ahuna Mons.
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Ceres is the largest known asteroid in our asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Before reaching Ceres, Dawn orbited asteroid Vesta in 2011 and 2012.
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