5. NASA Releases Ceres Animation Instead of Actual Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVr2unWb4cA Anyone who has been following the pictures from Ceres that NASA has been releasing from the Dawn spacecraft knows that something strange is going on. Extremely bright pockets of light have been visible from multiple angles to the point that NASA has thrown up their hands in trying to figure out what is happening on the dwarf planet. The above video was released on June 8th by NASA and by all accounts is an impressive flyover. The odd nature of the video however is that it is a complete artist's rendering. No actual images are in this. This seems like an odd move by NASA after so much interest has come from previous pictures. Ceres has so far produced images of its famous unexplained lights, strange lines that are possibly landing strips, and even possible UFOs in pictures. An animated video release at this point seems like a convenient cop out.