Ceres Lights – mystery lights on a dwarf planet.

Ceres Lights–mystery lights on dwarf planet bear striking semblance to street lights of earthly cities

Scientists were baffled when they were first spotted in 2004 and as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft probe draws nearer to the dwarf planet, the Ceres Lights mystery grows deeper. The photo above shows the striking similarity between the Ceres Lights and earthly lights photographed from space (Las Vegas in the example above).

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NASA plans to explore the moons of Saturn with… a submarine?

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Titan, one of Saturn’s 60 something moons, is covered with lakes and seas of liquid methane which means landing a spaceship on Titan would be quite difficult. But landing a spaceship *under* the methane seas of Titan… well, that’s an entirely new set of problems – and NASA intends to figure out how to do…

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