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Description: Asteroid 1 Ceres, imaged by the Dawn spacecraft at phase angles of 0°, 7° and 33°. The left image at 0° phase angle shows the brightness surge due to the opposition effect.
Title: Ceres opposition effect
Credit: https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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