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...
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...
12 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... similar to what we do on Mars than what we did with Vesta. Space.com: Could Dawn's measurements reveal whether Ceres has a subsurface ocean, as some researchers suspect? Russell: That might be difficult for us. But we have instruments to measure...
30 June 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
... interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres hasn’t surprised scientists before. In the beginning of 2014, for example, we detected emissions of water vapor from several...
