Tag Archives: Ceres
Dwarf Planet Ceres Shows Cryovolcanic Activity
NASA Finds Life’s Building Blocks on Ceres
Dawn probe spots organic materials on dwarf planet Ceres
Ceres is now officially included the list of celestial bodies where we've found organic molecules. NASA's Dawn scientists have spotted the presence of organic compounds on the dwarf planet using the spacecraft's visible and infrared mapping spectrome...
Ancient Ceres may have had plenty of ice volcanoes
Millions of years ago, Ceres' surface might have had plenty of icy volcanoes to keep Ahuna Mons company. Scientists have always found its solitary existence weird anyway. "Imagine if there was just one volcano on all of Earth," University of Arizona...
Ceres May Have Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
Dwarf planet Ceres’ surface isn’t what scientists expected
As much as we now know about Ceres, it's evident the dwarf planet still has a few surprises left. Astronomers have discovered that Ceres' surface isn't as carbon-rich as previously thought. A fresh batch of infrared scans shows that the surface is...
Dwarf planet Ceres is ‘oozing’ with water
Scientists already knew via remote observations that Ceres, the dwarf planet (or humongous asteroid if you prefer), has plenty of water in it. The Dawn probe has now revealed that the asteroid is composed of as much as 30 percent water at the poles,...
Water Ice Covered the Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA says Ceres’ brightest crater is made of salt
The scientists in charge of NASA's Dawn spacecraft has released more high-res images of Ceres, along with information that sheds more light on what it's made of. One of the new images is another close-up of its famous Occator Crater taken from a diff...