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Description	English: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope colour image of Ceres, the largest Main Belt asteroid. Astronomers optimized spatial resolution to about 18 km per pixel, enhancing the contrast in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, that are both brighter and darker than the average which absorbs 91% of sunlight falling on it. (Original description by NASA) (Earth Distance: 1.64 AU and Angular diameter: 0.798")
Source	image (Cropped from original) from Hubble Space Telescope
Date	Taken: 2004-01-23. Released 7 September 2005
Author	NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)
Permission ( Reusing this image)	Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. [...]
Other versions	Image:Ceres_a_cores.jpg

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Ceres. January 23, 2004
Hubble Space Telescope. ACS/HRC
NASA, ESA, and J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute) STScl-PRC05-27c

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:24, 19 January 2008	942×942 (278 KB)	Papa November	(Cropped version of high-res hubble image from source in description page)
	19:34, 15 September 2006	275×275 (8 KB)	Orionist	({{Information \|Description= NASA's Hubble Space Telescope colour image of Ceres, the largest Main Belt asteroid. Astronomers optimized spatial resolution to about 18 km per pixel, enhancing the contrast in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surfa)

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