Years ago, NASA's Dawn space probe discovered widespread ammonium ... formed where it is orbiting today. Conus Crater is located on Ceres' southern hemisphere. With a diameter of around 64 ...

Space weathering ... likely originated from Ceres’ subsurface ocean, which over time, could have pushed organic compounds to the surface. Ertunet Crater's location and characteristics provide ...

By far, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid ... the history of Occator Crater in detail. They believe a space rock struck this location some 20 million years ago, puncturing the icy ...

(Nature 2005) from the analysis of Hubble Space Telescope observations. Additional spatially resolved spectroscopic observations are needed to investigate further the properties of Ceres surface.

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird ... The discovery of Ceres in the early 1800s prompted debate among scientists. Ceres is the largest known object to ...