#dwarf planet

Happy New Year fellow space lovers!

Earth has just completed another revolution around the Sun and New Horizons probe has just made a flyby of Ultima Thule (486958) 2014 MU₆₉,a distant Kuiper Belt Object. While we’re all waiting for close up photos, I’m working on a something special for that occasion. Not sure yet when it’ll be ready, but really wanted to share this little teaser with you, hope you like it!

You can also find it on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6i4u5jdkJk

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GEOLOGIC MAP OF CERES (Dwarf planet) / MAPA GEOLÓGICO DE CERES (Planeta Enano)

Source:Eureca: El Blog de Daniel Marín

More maps on  http://geomapping.tumblr.com/

scinewscom:

New Horizons Data Suggest Viscous Ocean Lies beneath Pluto’s Heart-Shaped Region

http://www.sci-news.com/space/ocean-plutos-heart-shaped-region-04373.html

This is Ceres!

Ceres is the only dwarf planet in our inner solar system and the largest object within the Asteroid Belt. Water vapor is being released from the dwarf planet, resulting in Ceres losing 6kg of its mass per second through steam!

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 7th, 2022 at 20:11 UTC. 

mxcleod:

This stunning image of the Pluto was captured from New Horizons at about 4 p.m. EDT on July 13, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers) from the surface after traveling more than 9 years and 3+ billion miles.

Image Credit: NASA