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Ceres is saturated with impact craters.Many have a central pit or bright spot. In the first batch of 17 names approved by the IAU, craters north of 20° north latitude had names beginning with A–G (with Asari being the furthest north), those between 20° north and south latitude beginning with H–R, and those further south beginning with S–Z (with Zadeni being the furthest south).
Several bright surface features were discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn spacecraft in 2015. [41] The brightest spot is located in the middle of Occator crater, and is called "bright spot 5". There are 130 bright areas that have been discovered on Ceres, which are thought to be salt or ammonia-rich clays. [42]
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
Two dark features had circular shapes and are presumably craters; one of them was observed to have a bright central region, whereas another was identified as the "Piazzi" feature. More recent visible-light Hubble Space Telescope images of a full rotation taken in 2003 and 2004 showed 11 recognizable surface features, the natures of which are ...
A new study reveals some fascinating insights into an ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres. The volcano Ahuna Mons is about 13,000 feet tall and 11 miles wide which is particularly impressive ...
Discovered in March 6, 2015 during the early stages of mapping of Ceres's surface, the Dawn mission located a bright region on the Occator crater floor. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The material in this region was determined to have a dominant composition of sodium (Na) carbonates, aluminium (Al) phyllosilicates, and ammonium chloride (NH 4 Cl).
Scientists have detected ice on the planet's surface, which could mean Ceres is hiding an ocean below its frozen crust.
The fossils were between 35.5 to 35.9 million years old and were found in a nearly 10-foot-long rock core: a tube-like sample taken from underneath the Gulf of Mexico by the scientific Deep Sea ...