Dawn made history as the first mission to reach a dwarf planet, and the first to orbit two distinct extraterrestrial targets, when it arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015. It conducted extensive ...

But scientists don't yet know the origins of the color and texture variations on the surface of Ceres. The pictures from Ceres that map its surface have a resolution of 450 feet per pixel, or one ...

A black-and-white map of Pluto's surface — that includes all available and resolved images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecarft — is the most comprehensive view yet of the icy world. Prior ...

The new Ceres maps were created using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the dwarf planet since March. While some locations on Ceres once carried labels like "Spot 1" and ...

NASA just released the most complete look at Pluto that we've ever seen. Scientists created a full world map of Pluto by stitching together all the images NASA has slowly released over the past ...

Dwarf planet Ceres color map reveals surface diversity. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 04 / 150416135652.htm ...

A new definition of "planet" may recategorize many dwarf planets and moons as planets. You may be familiar with our solar system's eight planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ...

Makemake is the third-largest known dwarf planet in our solar system, after Pluto and Eris, with a diameter of 888 miles across. It takes about 309 years to orbit the sun.