10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...looks like as new observations from the second extended Dawn mission suggests that the rocky-icy body is an ... particularly good. “High-resolution gravity data obtained during Dawn’s extended mission revealed an abundance of dense material — that is, ...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
Since the arrival of the Dawn mission around dwarf planet Ceres, scientists have been... face of Ceres today," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission. Dawn is still actively studying Ceres and it is set to descend to less...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
... orbit around Ceres already under its belt, NASA's Dawn mission has already thrown up a few surprises about the ... a potential answer to the re-moulding of its surface. Before Dawn even arrived at Ceres, remote sensing from Earth had already determined...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
People who write about dwarf planet Ceres rarely fail to mention about how mysterious it is. But NASA’s Dawn mission is changing that, somewhat. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which immediately brings home its ...
10 September 2015
Ceres Occator crater: bright spots as you’ve never seen them before
New close-up images of Ceres, recently released by NASA’s Dawn mission, show its in greatest detail yet. Detailed images of the Occator crater on Ceres, which contains the bright ...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
Dawn, the NASA robot probe, has discovered a series of bright spots on Ceres. ... fact that the more answers we get, the more new questions end up arising. The Dawn mission is, once again, the perfect example of that. We saw the surface of a mysterious...
