Now that Dawn is in its science orbit at Ceres, the mission has been releasing new images every weekday! Here is a week's worth of views of Ceres, all of them taken from the first "rotation characterization" performed from the 13,500-kilometer science orbit. I have sorted them into rotational order so that you can see how features appear to change as they rotate into and out of sunlight. Dawn is looking at Ceres' south pole here, so Ceres appears to rotate clockwise from one image to the next. None of the famous bright spots is visible in these views, but there is some interesting crater morphology and various linear features scattered among the intercrater plains.

I could wander around and interpret the geology, but I think that would ruin your fun. With these images, released so soon after Dawn acquired them, you're getting the same opportunity the science team has: to see brand-new, better-than-ever views of a previously unexplored world in the solar system. You get a chance to be a Dawn scientist! Look at the images up close. Try to make observations without interpreting what you see -- just look for shapes and patterns. Compare and contrast features. Do all the craters of the same size look the same? Do all the areas outside same-size craters look the same? If not, what differences do you see?