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Bright Spot on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion

Bright Spot on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion
Photojournal: PIA19185
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: February 25, 2015

This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft of dwarf planet Ceres on Feb. 19 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). It shows that the brightest spot on Ceres has a dimmer companion, which apparently lies in the same basin.

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