NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured these bright lights on the dwarf planet Ceres using its framing camera. This picture was taken when Dawn was making a pass of Ceres on June 15, 2015 from a distance of about 4,400 kilometers.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took a series of photographs of the dwarf planet Ceres this past month from a distance of 13,600 kilometers. This analglyph –  which is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D image – was part of the set of photos. The 3D image of Ceres was taken by Dawn’s framing camera using red and cyan filters (one for each eye) can truly be appreciated by anyone that has a pair of basic 3D glasses, to see the stereoscopic image of Ceres with its craters and other surface features.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this picture of Ceres, a dwarf planet in our solar system, using its framing cameras. These two instruments were designed as Dawn’s “eyes” and to help measure the size and shape of Vesta and Ceres, as the spacecraft explored our asteroid belt where the dwarf planet Ceres resides (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter). This picture was taken from a distance of 83,000 kilometers.