Collaborate Disseminate
Through its 11-year stint studying the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, NASA’s Dawn mission has profoundly changed our understanding of the dwarf planet Ceres. New analysis of data collected during the latter stages of this mission has offered s… Continue reading 25-mile-deep reservoir of salty water found beneath surface of Ceres
Astronomers have taken the clearest-ever shots of asteroid Pallas, a large rock orbiting out beyond Mars. The new images revealed the surface of this tiny world to be heavily dotted with craters, to the point where it’s been dubbed the “golf ball aster… Continue reading New images reveal “golf ball asteroid” has seen its share of hits
Read on to find out why NASA said, verbatim, that ‘Ceres was once occupied by a dragon.” Continue reading Ceres Is Home to an Ice Volcano Half the Size of Everest