Nasa probe spots mysterious shiny patches on dwarf planet Ceres
by Ian Sample , science editor from on (#3WT6)
Images from Dawn spacecraft reveal a pair of bright spots which scientists believe may be primordial ice reflecting sunlight
A Nasa probe that is speeding towards the largest object in the asteroid belt has spotted two mysterious shiny patches on the otherwise dark and cratered body.
The latest images from Nasa's Dawn spacecraft reveal a pair of bright spots on Ceres, a 590-mile-wide dwarf planet, with the brightest of the two reflecting at least 40% of the sunlight that falls on it.
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