Using a series of pictures of Ceres — the dwarf planet within the Solar system, scientists at NASA have compiled a short video with the help of which anyone can consider a tiny space body from all sides. To compile the video used images taken from the spacecraft Dawn, which every 3,1 earth days makes a complete revolution around the largest object in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.

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Using a series of pictures of Ceres — the dwarf planet within the Solar system, scientists at NASA have compiled a short video with the help of which anyone can consider a tiny space body from all sides. To compile the video used images taken from the spacecraft Dawn, which every 3,1 earth days makes a complete revolution around the largest object in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.

Photos of Ceres made from the ship in the last month. Thanks Dawn, the network got pictures, which the dwarf had detected a mysterious "bright points". Photos, of which there were videos were taken when the spacecraft was at a distance of 5.1 to 13.6 thousand kilometers from Ceres. At this point, Dawn was approaching her at a distance of only about 4.5 thousand kilometers, so astronomers from NASA expect to receive in the near future even more high-quality images.

the Diameter of Ceres is about 950 km, an Area of approximately 3 million square kilometers (about 1.9% of the Earth's land, or roughly the size of Argentina). The period of revolution around the Sun is 4.6 years. The average surface temperature is -106 °C at perihelion it can reach -33 °C. astronomers estimated, Ceres at a quarter consists of water, a resource which exceeds in volume all the freshwater on Earth. Water Ceres, astronomers believed, in the form of ice hidden in her robes.

Being located between the planets of terrestrial group and giant planets, Ceres can be a natural base for interplanetary travel person. Thanks to the low gravity, the transport of goods with Ceres very energy-efficient. Also in the future Ceres could become a base for exploration of asteroids (mining on them mineral raw materials).