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Several bright surface features (also known as faculae) were discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn spacecraft in 2015.. The brightest cluster of spots ("Spot 5") is located in an 80-kilometer (50 mi) crater called Occator.
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid , discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily , and announced as a new planet .
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".
The Dawn spacecraft has spotted not one, but two bright points on the minor planet Ceres. Newly enhanced images from the probe show two shining spots on the surface. It's not clear exactly what ...
3), implying that hydrothermal activity was probably involved in creating the bright spots. [4] [5] In August 2020, NASA confirmed that Ceres was a water-rich body with a deep reservoir of brine that percolated to the surface in various locations causing the "bright spots", including those in Occator crater.
A few weeks back, NASA's Dawn probe beamed back pictures of Ceres, and astronomers were surprised to see two bright spots on the dwarf planet's surface. The picture lacked the detail necessary to ...
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).
It protrudes above the cratered terrain, is not an impact feature, and is the only mountain of its kind on Ceres. Bright streaks run top to bottom on its slopes which are thought to be salt, similar to the better known Cererian bright spots, [3] and likely resulted from cryovolcanic activity from Ceres's interior. [4]