NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took these images of the asteroid 1 Ceres
over a 2-hour and 20-minute span, the time it takes the Texas-sized object
to complete one quarter of a rotation. One day on Ceres lasts 9 hours.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker(Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas
(Cornell University). and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park) |
