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Articles tagged: Occator Crater

  • Cerealia Facula, Ceres, cryovolcanism, Dawn Mission, Occator Crater 13 December 2017 Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active

    ... of material includes the most prominent bright areas found on the crater floors on Ceres and one of the most iconic examples is in Occator Crater. In the centre of the crater, is a region known as Cerealia Facula, which consists of bright material...

    • Cerealia Facula
    • Ceres
    • cryovolcanism
    • Dawn Mission
    • Occator Crater
  • 09 September 2015 Ceres Occator crater: bright spots as you’ve never seen them before

    ... Dawn mission, show its in greatest detail yet. Detailed images of the Occator crater on Ceres, which contains the bright spots, as well as oblique views of the crater and animations, have been released to the public. Widespread speculation as to why...

  • Ceres, Dawn Mission, Dwarf Planet, salts, subsurface ocean 10 August 2020 Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean

    ... deep. Using new high-resolution gravity data and imaging from Dawn to model the region surrounding Occator crater, Raymond, who is based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, found that there is evidence to support an extensive brine reservoir...

    • Ceres
    • Dawn Mission
    • Dwarf Planet
    • salts
    • subsurface ocean
  • Solar System, water February 2016 Searching for water in the Solar System

    ...structure). Another series of results suggest the presence of hydrated salts in the famous bright spots of the Occator crater. These observations suggest an abundance of water in Ceres readily accessible to future explorers. Other objects in the main...

    • Solar System
    • water
    Authors: Julie Castillo-Rogez    
  • Ceres, cryovolcanism, Dawn Mission, Dwarf Planet, impact craters 27 July 2016 Where did Ceres' craters go?

    ... we do see evidence of cryovolcanism – icy volcanism – in the bright spots found scattered over Ceres, especially in Occator Crater." Cryovolcanism is not too dissimilar to the usual type of volcanism found on Earth, only at much lower temperatures...

    • Ceres
    • cryovolcanism
    • Dawn Mission
    • Dwarf Planet
    • impact craters
  • Ceres, megasatellite, Space Exploration, space habitats November 2021 Megasatellite habitat at Ceres

    ... is composed of structural steel and one percent is air. This representation of Ceres’ Occator Crater in false colour shows differences in the surface composition. Occator measures about 90 km (60 miles) wide. When mining Ceres, it is intended that...

    • Ceres
    • megasatellite
    • Space Exploration
    • space habitats
    Authors: Pekka Janhunen    

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