Last week's Dawn images of Ceres were just slightly less detailed than Hubble's best. This week's are just slightly more detailed. Detailed enough to be dangerous. It's very tempting to talk myself into interpretations of the various light and dark splotches visible in this latest animation -- I see double-ringed craters, arcuate ridges, and a smattering of bright dots that I want to call fresh impact craters. But since Dawn's getting closer every minute, I'm going to refrain from drawing any conclusions for a little while! In the meantime, let's just enjoy the images.

Here's the animation more or less as released by the Dawn team -- I aligned it and tweaked the levels a little bit: