The Bright Spots of Ceres Spin Into View

New images of the largest asteroid Ceres taken by the Dawn spacecraft show that one of the mysterious bright spots is actually a cluster of smaller spots. The image above shows the spots. Dawn was just under 14,000 kilometers from Ceres when it took this shot, and the resolution is 1.3 kilometers per pixel (in the original image; I zoomed it a bit to show the spots better here). It's hard to say exactly what the structure of these things is; they may be a couple of big spots with lots of little ...