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hubie [soylentnews.org] writes:

NASA has released a dramatic new video of the dwarf planet Ceres.

The black-and-white animation lets viewers fly around the mysterious orb from an altitude of 8,400 miles, compressing the nine-hour Cererian day into 75 seconds. It was assembled from 80 images taken by the space agency's Dawn spacecraft.

You can read about the video [huffingtonpost.com] or just go straight to it [youtube.com].

Presumably to make the video more dramatic, they exaggerated the vertical profile by a factor of two and they added a star field to the background.

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