Jan 202015
The Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres, and for the first time we’re starting to get images of the “dwarf planet” that begin to show it as a distinct world. It is really quite round, and appears to have some unusual features.
An hours worth of images taken on January 13 from a distance of 238,000 miles… roughly the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Dawn won’t go into orbit around Ceres until March 6. The rather creakingly slow approach is due to Dawns low-thrust ion engines.
More info HERE.