Ceres
The largest object in the asteroid belt, mapped by the Dawn spacecraft, bright mystery spots included.
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About this globe
The largest object in the asteroid belt — big enough to be round, small enough to fold in an evening. NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited it from 2015 to 2018.
The mysterious bright spots in Occator crater turned out to be salt, left behind by briny water seeping up from below.
How the data was captured
Photographed by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which orbited Ceres from 2015 to 2018 — the first spacecraft to orbit two different worlds (it explored the asteroid Vesta first).
Download free — pick your paper size
Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.
In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.
Sharing this globe?
Free for personal use, classrooms, and gifts — not for resale. If you post it on your site or share it online, please credit Folding Globes with a link. Copy-paste blurb:
"Ceres" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/ceres · Imagery: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Dawn