Now you can see what it’s like to orbit a far away world, thanks to NASA’s latest released animation.

The new video released by the US space agency depicts the dwarf planet Ceres, as evident by the Dawn spacecraft. The video has demonstrated a number of topographical features of Ceres, including its great crater Occator and the mountain Ahuna Mons, and also its now well known ‘bright spots’.

In a blog post form NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, German mission scientist Ralf Jaumann said, “The simulated overflight shows the wide range of crater shapes that we have encountered on Ceres. The viewer can observe the sheer walls of the crater Occator, and also Dantu and Yalode, where the craters are a lot flatter”.

Dawn started orbiting Ceres in March, becoming the first mission to orbit a dwarf planet.

Alike the well known dwarf planet Pluto, Ceres hasn’t always been categorized like this. When Ceres was first discovered by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi on the first night of 1801, he thought that he had found a comet.

By the mid of 1801, most astronomers were quite sure that it was a planet and not a comet. Because of its small size, but they ultimately decided on classifying it as an asteroid.

Until 2006, Ceres didn’t receive an upgrade in status and became prominent as a dwarf planet. It was the same year when Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet.

A year later, the US space agency launched its Dawn spacecraft on a mission to click pictures of remote Ceres and its neighbor, the asteroid Vesta. In March last year, Dawn entered Ceres’ orbit.

Dawn mission director Mark Rayman said in the JPL post that when Piazzi found Ceres, its exploration was unimaginable.