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# Image:Ceres optimized.jpg

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## [edit] Summary

Description | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope color 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 discription by NASA)
Source | http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ceres.jpg (Slightly cropped from original)
Date | Taken: December 2003 - January 2004. 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 | 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. [...] [1]
Other versions | Image:Ceres_a_cores.jpg

## [edit] Licensing

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- All materials created by the SOHO probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [3]
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Orientation | Normal
Software used | ACD Systems Digital Imaging
File change date and time | 22:03, 15 September 2006
Y and C positioning | 1
Exif version | 2.2
DateTime subseconds | 125

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