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Originally Posted by Calla Cofield
Dawn still has more than a year of observing time around Ceres, after which it will depart for Vesta, the second most massive body in the asteroid belt. The mystery of the white spots is a tantalizing one, but it is not the central goal of the Dawn mission
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Calla Cofield is going to kick herself when she realises what she wrote
Next closer orbit commences 6th June, so we should have even better info then. For now we know that its reflected light and that's about it