Exploring the Solar System
Exploring Ceres, the Amazing Minor Planet
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When the Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres over two centuries ago, he would not have believed that we would one day travel out to explore it. NASA sent a spacecraft called Dawn on a journey of more than 3 billion miles to reach this mysterious world. It showed that Ceres is a cratered body with diverse features that include a tall, cone-shaped mountain and more than 130 reflective patches of salt.