Ceres: Queen of the Astroid Belt - NASA JPL Space Tourism Poster
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The Visions of the Future posters, from the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, promote travel to planets and moons. This poster depicts a couple in space gear standing around a
water pump which lies under a threshold with the words: "Ceres, Queen of the Asteroid Belt, Gateway to the Other Solar System, Last Chance for Water Until Jupiter"
"Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the Sun. It is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of about 965 kilometers. After being studied with telescopes for more than two centuries, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be explored by a spacecraft, when NASA’s Dawn probe arrived in orbit in March 2015. Dawn’s ongoing detailed observations are revealing intriguing insights into the nature of this mysterious world of ice and rock."
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