Ceres' bright spots seen in striking new detail

[PF_SpaceNews]

Ceres' bright spots seen in striking new detail

The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft . These closest-yet views of Occator crater, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel, give scientists a deeper perspective on these very unusual features.

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[Greg Bernhardt]

Here is a photo

 

[mfb]

They are some days too late.

 

[Astronuc]

The bright spots appear to change.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/something-unexpected-happening-those-mysterious-163417488.html

Daily variability of Ceres' Albedo detected by means of radial velocities changes of the reflected sunlight
http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/02/07/mnrasl.slw017

http://www.oats.inaf.it/index.php/it/pubbliche-relazioni/news/602-foschia-su-cerere.html (in Italian)

 

[mfb]

Interestingly, the spots are brightest when they’re on the day side of Ceres, facing the sun.

Wait, what? Even if that is meant relative to the surrounding area (it is trivial in absolute terms...), how would telescopes on Earth see that? We barely see any non-daylight region, and we barely see any surface structures from Earth. Seeing the bright spots when there is no sunlight on them? I don't think that works.
The rest might be true.