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Ceres is an "ocean world" with a big reservoir of salty water under its frigid surface, scientists said in findings that raise interest in this dwarf planet as a possible outpost for life.
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Research published on Monday based on data obtained by NASA`s Dawn spacecraft provides a new understanding of Ceres.
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Scientists believe that Kwanzaa Tholus may have once been as prominent as Ahuna Mons, the tallest and most noticeable mountain on Ceres.
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The researchers presented the latest results about the bright areas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday.
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The planet may have had a global ocean in the past but experts now believe that Ceres' crust is a mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials that were subjected to past and possibly recent geologic activity
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During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015.
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On April 29, Dawn successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface.
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The research, led by researchers Andreas Nathues at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Germany, analyzed data from two instruments on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft: the framing camera, and the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer.
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The organics discovery was made by the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard the Dawn spacecraft in and around a northern-hemisphere crater called Ernutet.
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Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto, Europa, Triton, Charon and Titan, may also have such mountains of icy rock - called cryovolcanoes - but Ahuna Mons is conspicuously alone on Ceres.
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Newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet.
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NASA will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union which is being held from December 12-16 in San Francisco.
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The findings, published in Science, are based on the yearlong orbital observations by the Dawn spacecraft which is till revolving around 590-miles wide Ceres.
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As per NASA, Ceres has a special property called "hydrostatic equilibrium," which was confirmed in this study.
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The US space agency NASA has released a video explaining the case of the missing Ceres craters.
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The US space agency NASA's Dawn has identified ice-friendly craters mapped on the dwarf planet Ceres.
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Here are some amazing things you must know about our solar system this week.
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NASA has released a new image of the dwarft planet Ceres with bright material.
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Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles across and 2.5 miles deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres.
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Dawn spacecraft has sent an image that shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres.
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Latest images from Dawn spacecraft reveal a mysterious mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.
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