What is the white spot on Ceres?

[Kerbface]

A particularly icey core section exposed by a massive impact? That's my only guess. Except maybe the guess that the impacting object itself was almost fully ice and it's the remnants of that.

[SiliconPyro]

If there is indeed a layer of water ice under the dusty surface of Ceres, then an impact crater may be the explanation. Considering its location in the asteroid belt, that makes it even more probable.

A more interesting explanation would be the glare from an alien telescope that's pointed at Earth. And you thought you had to worry about the NSA.

[tek_604]

I don't know, but be sure to keep an eye on the Dawn mission. We should be captured by Ceres around April 2015

[CleverClothe]

I don't know, but be sure to keep an eye on the Dawn mission. We should be captured by Ceres around April 2015

I wish the devs would fix universal time warp already.

[OtherDalfite]

I'm guessing it's possibly a mark left by a large dusty asteroid hitting, spewing the white powder across the surface. That, or some sort of geological formation. A lot like how on the Moon, white arms seem to stretch out from an impact crater.

[Themohawkninja]

Seeing as the Hubble Space Telescope picked it up quite clearly, and it is a visible light telescope, than it would appear that the bright spot is an area of very high reflectivity. It could be that surface ice was covered up from many years of accumulated dust, until a recent meteor impact uncovered a large chunk of the ice.