Pyramid In Space

NASA found a three-mile-high triangular pyramid on Ceres, the dwarf planet.

18:48 24 June 2015

NASA has spotted a mysterious, pyramid-shaped mountain on the surface of Ceres. The three-mile-high triangular pyramid was spotted by the Dawn spacecraft as it orbited 2,700 miles above the distant dwarf planet. 

 

"Curiouser & curiouser. @NASA_Dawn sees pyramid-shaped peak," NASA tweeted after taking images of the mystery mountain.

 

The spacecraft also spotted “mysterious bright spots” which NASA believe to have been caused by a highly reflective material. Using Dawn’s infrared mapping spectrometre technology, NASA considers the presence of ice and salt in the planet. 

 

"The surface of Ceres has revealed many interesting and unique features," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

 

"For example, icy moons in the outer solar system have craters with central pits, but on Ceres central pits in large craters are much more common.

 

"These and other features will allow us to understand the inner structure of Ceres that we cannot sense directly."