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 The researchers presented the latest results about the bright areas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday.
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On April 29, Dawn successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface. 
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The research, led by researchers Andreas Nathues at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Germany, analyzed data from two instruments on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft: the framing camera, and the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer.
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Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles across and 2.5 miles deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres.






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