Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day focuses in on Cerealia Facula, on Dwarf Planet Ceres. As the Dawn vehicle reaches the end of its mission (fuel supplies are not infinite!), it has been put into a lower orbit around Ceres to make the most of the remainder of the mission. The object seen is (alas) not ice (as I had hoped) but deposits of salt (15 kilometers wide)
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