# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/7bF1fWoaJN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11737275-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/2f5ad72351.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-09-09T20:29:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Mysterious bright spots are seen here in greater detail. This image, made using images taken by our Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on dwarf planet Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots. The bright spots are much brighter than the rest of Ceres' surface, and tend to appear overexposed in most images. This view is a composite of two images of Occator: one using a short exposure that captures the detail in the bright spots, and one where the background surface is captured at normal exposure.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

#nasa #ceres #planets #nasadawn #dawn #solarsystem #space #nasabeyond #science

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nasabeyond, science, nasa, planets, dawn, nasadawn, space, ceres, solarsystem

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