NASA's Hubble Space Telescope color image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>, the largest object in the asteroid belt. Astronomers optimized spatial resolution to about 18 km per pixel, enhancing the contrast in these images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, that are both brighter and darker than the average which absorbs 91% of sunlight falling on it. (Original description by NASA) (Earth Distance: 1.64 AU and Angular diameter: 0.798")
NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)
Taken: 2004-01-23. Released 7 September 2005
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2005/27/images/d/formats/print.jpg">image</a> (Cropped from original) from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/27/image/d/">Hubble Space Telescope</a>