NASA just released new Ceres photos - Ceres gets weirder

Get up close with Ceres 'weird Pyramid' and bright spots in new NASA photos. The closer we get to Ceres, the more perplexing the dwarf planet grows.

The intriguing brightest spots on Ceres lie in a crater named Occator, which is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilometers) deep.

Among the highest features seen on Ceres so far is a mountain about 4 miles (6 kilometers) high, which is roughly the elevation of Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park.

It's unusual that it's not associated with a crater. Why is it sitting in the middle of nowhere?

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will resume its observations of Ceres in mid-August from an altitude of 900 miles (less than 1,500 kilometers), or three times closer to Ceres than its previous orbit.

Link original photos:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA19617_hires.jpg

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA19618_hires.jpg

           

NASA finds 3-mile-tall 'pyramid' and more bright spots on Ceres

Ancient astronaut alert! More weird features have been spotted by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
As Dawn first made its approach on Ceres earlier this year, it caught sight of large, bright and mysterious reflective spots in a crater on the big rock, which is also believed to contain quite a bit of water, ice and/or mud in its interior.
Now orbiting at a near altitude of just 2,700 miles, those big spots remain a mystery (the leading guess is still reflective patches of ice or salts), but Dawn is also beginning to pick out other bright spots and an odd pyramid-shaped peak that NASA estimates to be three miles tall, which would put it higher than any of the Rocky Mountains. The image with the peak was taken on June 6 and released Wednesday.




           

Alien craft & Anomalous pipe structures found on Ceres, June 2, 2015

Secureteam10: ''The brightness/contrast was simply adjusted, and the burn tool used to bring out the true details of the structures against it's background. Nothing has been added, removed or edited to make these structures ''appear''. ...This would not be the first time that NASA has uploaded, removed, and then reuploaded multiple versions of a new image, after realizing someone like us has exposed something that they missed initially...EDIT: After checking the version of the image that's online at this very moment and comparing it against the image we downloaded when it first hit, the size and resolution is about a third lower of what we got initially. Looks like a definite image swap.''



            



Image source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19323