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Tour Weird Ceres: Bright Spots and a Pyramid-Shaped Mountain

Source: NASA/JPL
Published: August 6, 2015

Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA's Dawn mission.

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