{"id":18018,"date":"2015-10-01T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T07:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/new-maps-of-ceres-highlight-mysterious-bright-spots-giant-mountain"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:20","slug":"new-maps-of-ceres-highlight-mysterious-bright-spots-giant-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/new-maps-of-ceres-highlight-mysterious-bright-spots-giant-mountain","title":{"rendered":"New Maps of Ceres Highlight Mysterious Bright Spots, Giant Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-maps-of-ceres-highlight-mysterious-bright-spots-giant-mountain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New maps of Ceres show the dwarf planet\u2019s mysterious bright spots and huge, pyramid-shaped mountain in a new light.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/24368-dwarf-planet-ceres-photos-largest-asteroid.html\">new maps of Ceres<\/a> come courtesy of NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the heavily cratered dwarf planet since March. The maps highlight the compositional and elevation differences across Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>For example, one new topographic map focuses on an odd mountain dubbed \u201cthe Pyramid,\u201d which rises about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) into space from Ceres\u2019 surface. And another map zeroes in on the 56-mile-wide (90 km) Occator crater, whose floor features the most luminescent of the dwarf planet\u2019s enigmatic bright spots. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/29625-ceres-mysterious-bright-spots-coming-into-focus-video.html\">Ceres\u2019 Mysterious Bright Spots Coming Into Focus (Video)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/30705-dwarf-planet-ceres-maps-dawn-spacecraft.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New maps of Ceres show the dwarf planet\u2019s mysterious bright spots and huge, pyramid-shaped mountain in a new light. The new maps of Ceres come courtesy of NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the heavily cratered dwarf planet since March. The maps highlight the compositional and elevation differences across Ceres, the largest object in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69442,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions\/69442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}