UFO/Unexplained
New Data-Generated Images of Ceres Bright Spots and Pyramid Mountain
by Linda Moulton Howe, Earthfiles.com:
“Scientists have not yet determined what it is about the composition
or structure of the bright spots that is responsible for their extreme brightness.
…To discover their real nature, we need to get more data from lower altitudes.”
– Marc Rayman, Ph.D., Director, Dawn mission orbiting Ceres
August 9, 2015 Pasadena, California – NASA/JPL’s DAWN spacecraft team now calls the Ceres crater of mysterious bright spots Occator (oh-KAH-tor), one of twelve “assistant gods” to Ceres of Greek lore. Occator is the one that harrows the ground with heavy metal breaking up dirt clods, removing weeds and covering seeds.
In an August 6, 2015, newly released NASA/JPL video produced from DAWN spacecraft’s data, Marc Rayman, Dawn Mission Director, asks,“How can you not be mesmerized by those glowing spots?” (See 080615 NASA video below).
The baffling bright spots are in the 60-mile diameter crater named Occatur. The crater is 2 miles deep and Dr. Rayman says that the mysterious bright spots “reflect a great deal more sunlight than the rest of the surface material, but scientists have not yet determined what it is about their composition or structure that is responsible for the extreme brightness. …To discover their real nature, we need to get more data from lower altitudes.”
The DAWN spacecraft is now spiraling down to a closer orbit only 932 miles above the Ceres surface where it should be by the end of August. By then, new images of the Occatur crater bright spots might finally have enough details for a definitive answer about what they are. If not, there is one more lower orbit that DAWN will go into in December 2015 — only 235 miles above the Ceres surface.
