Nasa's Dawn spacecraft that slid gently into orbit around Ceres - the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter - last year has delivered a wealth of data that open a new window to the previously unexplored dwarf planet. Among Ceres' most enigmatic features is a tall mountain that the Dawn team named Ahuna Mons. This mountain appeared as a small, bright-sided bump on the surface from a distance of 46,000 km, before Dawn was captured into orbit. "Ceres has defied our expectations and surprised us in many ways, thanks to a year's worth of data from Dawn. We are hard at work on the mysteries the spacecraft has presented to us," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. As Dawn circled Ceres at increasingly lower altitudes, the shape of this mysterious feature began to come into focus. From afar, Ahuna Mons looked to be pyramid-shaped, but upon closer inspection, it is be...
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