The Mountain on Ceres (Dawn Space Probe, NASA)
Now that the Dawn spacecraft has actually reached the dwarf planet Ceres, Ferrebeekeeper has been writing less about it! Today we will remedy that with a spectacular photo taken from the robot probe. Remember the strange reflected light from Ceres which the world was so fascinated by? Well now that Dawn is a mere 1500 kilometers (900 miles) from Ceres, we have discovered that the reflections come from a huge glistening mountain—a strange anomaly on the puckered cratered terrain of the dwarf world. This mound is likely made of some sort of ice and is about the same size as Mount McKinley—the highest mountain in North America (approximately 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) tall). Geologists (or I guess I should say astrophysicists) are baffled by why the mountain is there—but I am sure that theories will be forthcoming.
Pundits and media personalities talk about this singular ice mountain as a pyramid (possibly to get hits), but to me it looks like a huge limpet made of ice. Here is a 360 degree panoramic sweep around of the mountain (which needs a name!). I wonder what other odd things are hiding in less plain sight on the little world.
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August 26, 2015 at 10:14 AM
Mike
It’s a space zit. Or maybe just something much more normal like the remains of an alien spaceship that fortunately crashed before getting to Earth.
August 26, 2015 at 9:52 PM
Wayne
I feel like we must have read that one.
August 31, 2015 at 5:30 PM
katesisco
The name should be Baalbek. Yet another mystery. Why are the biggest stones on top? My guess: after the volcano eruption in Washington, trees were seen to be uprooted and emplaced upside down. Recall the Swiss lake towns that were built on trees that had been speared down into the lake bed with roots upright. Courtesy of Mother Nature and gases and magnetism from the explosion.