27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
... making it disappear altogether. In addition, says Williams, Ceres must have generated some internal heat from the decay of...from large collisions that took place early in Ceres' history? "It is as though Ceres cures its own large impact scars and ...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
...Vesta in 2011-2012, and has been in orbit around Ceres since 2015. This makes Dawn the only spacecraft ever to...dark, rigid protective crust, a less rigid interior, and a solid core, Ceres’ lower density hints that ice could make up a major part of its...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... fluid activity was responsible for transporting the salts to Ceres’ surface. The leading explanation at the time for ...Rome, and colleagues, the team says that the material is unstable on Ceres’s surface, so it must have made its way to the surface ...
01 June 2016
Planetary Resources, Inc. secures funding for Ceres
... mining company, has announced that it was secured the funds for the deployment and operation of Ceres in Series A funding. Ceres is an advanced Earth observation business that features the first commercial infrared and hyperspectral sensor platform...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
...true interplanetary spaceship, Dawn is enlarging, reshaping and tilting its orbit again so that in March, it will be identical to Ceres’. While trajectories that use ion propulsion are much more complicated, that fundamental principle applies. Indeed...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
.... This last requirement is what stops objects like Ceres from being classified as a full blown planet. ... but it has now been constrained to be just over 430 km. For comparison Ceres diameter is close to 950 kilometres in size, whilst Pluto, the is it ...
