Impacts Keep Ceres’ Surface Hydrated
The crust of dwarf planet Ceres is primarily composed of water ice mixed with hydrated silicate minerals. The water ice in the outermost layer is susceptible to sublimation due to […]
The crust of dwarf planet Ceres is primarily composed of water ice mixed with hydrated silicate minerals. The water ice in the outermost layer is susceptible to sublimation due to […]
Since their first discovery, the origin of bright spots on the surface of asteroid 1 Ceres, known as faculae, has been enigmatic. In a new investigation, Nathan Stein and colleagues […]
Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018 Abstract deadline: January 19 http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018/ Since 2015, the Dawn spacecraft has orbited Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, and has returned a wealth […]
Ceres may have had a global ocean in the past. What happened to that ocean and whether Ceres could still have liquid within it are the focus of two new […]
This year’s annual Geological Society of America meeting features numerous sessions devoted to planetary sciences. We would like to highlight the session titled “Friends of Hoth: Satellites of the Outer […]
The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres’ tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures. […]
The two brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres, which have fascinated scientists for months, are back in view in the newest images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Dawn took these images […]
A new color map of dwarf planet Ceres, which NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting since March, reveals the diversity of the surface of this planetary body. Differences in morphology […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf plan-et. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000 kilometers) from Ceres when it was captured by […]
The Planetary Data System is inviting reviewers for the Dawn Framing Camera mosaics of Vesta. The data set includes Vesta global clear and color mosaics derived from images acquired by the Framing […]
Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles […]
Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. These images, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 […]
Protoplanet Vesta, visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2013, was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft. Dawn launched […]
The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf […]
The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11. That anomaly occurred shortly before a planned communication […]
The goals of the Dawn at Ceres Guest Investigator Program are to: a) enhance the scientific return from the Dawn mission by broadening participation in the mission b) augment the […]
ROSES-14 Amendment 21: Cancelation of the Dawn Focused Research and Analysis Program, and the addition of Dawn data to the Discovery Data Analysis Program. On release of ROSES-14 in February […]
A new image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two […]
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor […]