--- title: Watch Stunning Footage of Dwarf Planet Ceres description: The flyover video was captured at an altitude of 8,400 miles by NASA's Dawn spacecraft and shows Ceres rotating for one full Cerean day. canonical: https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-08T16:55:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:00:31.083Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Stunning Footage of Dwarf Planet Ceres og:description: Take a tour of the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter og:url: https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt352d9c526cfa1cda/69885370cd1bbaee536fbb17/dwarf-planet-ceres.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Dwarf Planet Ceres Space NASA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Stunning Footage of Dwarf Planet Ceres twitter:description: Take a tour of the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt352d9c526cfa1cda/69885370cd1bbaee536fbb17/dwarf-planet-ceres.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Take a Fascinating Tour of Dwarf Planet Ceres in NASA Flyover Video by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 8, 2015 4:55 PM UTC  NASA by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 8, 2015 4:55 PM UTC Ceres, the dwarf planet and largest object in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, can now be seen in fascinating detail, thanks to images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The flyover video was captured at an altitude of 8,400 miles during the spacecraft’s [first mapping orbit](http://dawnblog.jpl.nasa.gov/) last month. This particular video shows Ceres rotating for one full Cerean day, approximately nine hours. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/"},"headline":"Take a Fascinating Tour of Dwarf Planet Ceres in NASA Flyover Video","datePublished":"2015-06-08T16:55:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:00:31.083Z","description":"The flyover video was captured at an altitude of 8,400 miles by NASA's Dawn spacecraft and shows Ceres rotating for one full Cerean day, about nine hours","url":"https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/","keywords":["NASA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt352d9c526cfa1cda/69885370cd1bbaee536fbb17/dwarf-planet-ceres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt352d9c526cfa1cda/69885370cd1bbaee536fbb17/dwarf-planet-ceres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dwarf Planet Ceres Space NASA","caption":"Dwarf Planet Ceres Space NASA","creditText":"NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3912637/ceres-dwarf-planet-nasa-video/","name":"Take a Fascinating Tour of Dwarf Planet Ceres in NASA Flyover Video"}}]}] ```