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Dawn VIR Images of Ceres

Dawn VIR Images of Ceres
Photojournal: PIA19316
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF
Published: April 13, 2015

These images, from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), highlight two regions on Ceres containing bright spots. The top images show a region scientists have labeled '1' while the region labeled '5' is shown in the bottom images.

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