Glowing Pyramid Mountain Photographed on Planet Ceres - July 2015

 
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Glowing Pyramid Mountain on Planet Ceres - July 2015

By Eric Mack
CNET
8-8-15

      As NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt, this bizarre body seems to yield more questions than answers. ...

... In its latest video, posted Thursday, NASA shows us that in addition to the intriguing bright spots in a large crater on Ceres, there are also bright streaks running down the sides of a pyramid-shaped mountain rising higher than Alaska's 20,000-foot (6,100 meter) Mt. McKinley. ...
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