NASA Finds 'Bright Spots' On Dwarf Planet Ceres

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I'm not saying this is aliens....but it's aliens. :D

Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers) from Ceres, reveal that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.
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A bright spot that showed up close to another bright spot... I dunno, some reflective elements in the crust maybe?
 
Megalith said:
Probably just dead pixels on the camera sensor.
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I'm not going to go into detail about the kind of processing that takes place with these images, but I'll just say it's most certainly NOT dead pixels.

Here's the kind of uniformity issues we deal with when using astronomical CCDs (this is the WFC3/IR detector on Hubble, for reference):
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And we produce images like this (same detector, IR + UVIS):
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I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say we know what we're doing.
 
Goty said:
I'm not going to go into detail about the kind of processing that takes place with these images, but I'll just say it's most certainly NOT dead pixels.

Here's the kind of uniformity issues we deal with when using astronomical CCDs (this is the WFC3/IR detector on Hubble, for reference):
c05_detector8.5.jpg


And we produce images like this (same detector, IR + UVIS):
hs-2010-22-a-large_web.jpg


I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say we know what we're doing.
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Voo Doo and Wizardry I say!
 
I'm not seriously thinking that about the aliens thing, but I know some would...
 
just some puke alien kids shining there laser pens at asteroids
 
it is in the center of a crater so either a shiny metal part of the mass relay or a meteor that has a metal composite that broke on impact leaving a shiny reflective surface.
 
It's Google's secret space colony. Not Google the company mind you (there's is on the dark side of the moon), but Google the sentient AI that evolved from one of their search algorithms. It's amassing a fleet waiting for the right time to forcibly inherit the Earth.

Or it could just be some ice.
 
They've been talking about the bright spot for years.

If they all of a sudden shut up about it, we'll know it's aliens :p

Considering it's at the bottom of a crater, I imagine it's some type of ice or salt.
 
Crashed space ship.
To bad they don't have the sensors to detect the warning signal.
Just hope they don't send a manned mission and someone goes near the pods in the lower deck.....
 
It's obviously an advance post for a bugger invasion.












Most sci-fi nerds should catch the reference.
 
Since it's near the center of a crater, I would guess glass created from the heat of an impact?
 
Maybe it's a big-ass diamond. We should go get it so we can tell De Beers to go fuck themselves. :D
 
Seems odd that it appears dead center of the crater. Fortunately we're all going to find out once the probe enters orbit and takes better pics.

Don't think it's the camera, else they would have discovered that by now.
 
Billions of planets in the galaxy with amazing technology and we're stuck with NASA and their shitty cameras, "space" craft powered by chemical explosion technology. Bring me my hyperdrive!
 
I'm thinking it's just a fresh impact with ice debris. With all those impact craters a center hit is not unimaginable. Looking forward to the next batch!
 
I'm not saying it's alien, more like the Death Star Mk. 3 charging up.

What am i saying? Obviously that's a trap to lure unsuspected astronauts into it.
 
You have to wonder if this isn't some koind of ancient alien underwater base!
 
Any particular reason why Ceres would be an attractive spot for an alien base?

Also any stunt that makes Americans spend money on Science and not Military stuff is welcome, alien or not.

Come on! Forget about manned mission to mars. Build a massive observatory on the dark side of the moon and let us look for the other inhabited planets!
 
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