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Ceres during OpNav 3

Ceres during OpNav 3
Ceres during OpNav 3 Dawn observed Ceres for three hours, or one third of a Cerean day, on Feb. 3-4. The spacecraft was 91,000 miles (146,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet in this imaging session, known as OpNav 3. More detail on that one big bright spot is shown in another image below. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA