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Page 10The Asteroid Belt and Ceres

Between Mars and Jupiter, countless rocky worlds travel around the Sun—but the belt is mostly empty space. The largest resident is Ceres.

A sparse group of distant asteroids

Ceres

Ceres turned to show Occator crater

Vesta

NASA's Dawn spacecraft

Dawn observing Ceres

Irregular foreground asteroid

A different irregular asteroid

Ari pointing toward Ceres

Ari showing the wide spacing

Ari floating and pointing

Dot scanning an asteroid

Dot hovering

Dot discovering Occator's bright deposits

Spacecraft observation deck

A wide, varied neighbourhood

Simplified sparse asteroid belt

Simplified view — positions and distances are not to scale

The nine little rocks named on the page are drawings, not photographs. Their shapes are real; their sizes are not to scale.