Image:Ceres optimized.jpg

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Description
English: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope color image of Ceres, the largest Main Belt asteroid. Astronomers optimized spatial resolution to about 18 km per pixel, enhancing the contrast in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, that are both brighter and darker than the average which absorbs 91% of sunlight falling on it. (Original description by NASA) (Earth Distance: 1.64 AU and Angular diameter: 0.798")
Source

image (Cropped from original) from Hubble Space Telescope
Date

Taken: 2004-01-23. Released 7 September 2005
Author

NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. [...] [1]
Other versions Image:Ceres_a_cores.jpg

[edit] Image data cropped from border

  • Ceres. January 23, 2004
  • Hubble Space Telescope. ACS/HRC
  • NASA, ESA, and J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute) STScl-PRC05-27c

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current10:24, 19 January 2008942×942 (278 KB)Papa November (Cropped version of high-res hubble image from source in description page)
19:34, 15 September 2006275×275 (8 KB)Orionist ({{Information |Description= NASA's Hubble Space Telescope color image of Ceres, the largest Main Belt asteroid. Astronomers optimized spatial resolution to about 18 km per pixel, enhancing the contrast in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surfa)