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Largest Body In The Asteroid Belt Advances – Mysterious Ceres

Tuesday, July 7, 2015 5:45
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What are the mysterious lights on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?

Is it signs of life?

Life on the Dwarf planet Ceres?

What do you think?

Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may harbor a remnant internal ocean of liquid water under the layer of ice.

The surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clay.

In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected from several regions of Ceres.

This was somewhat unexpected, because large bodies in the asteroid belt do not typically emit vapor, a hallmark of comets.


The robotic NASA spacecraft Dawn entered orbit around Ceres on 6 March 2015.

Pictures with a resolution previously unattained were taken during imaging sessions starting in January 2015 as Dawn approached Ceres, showing a cratered surface.

Two distinct bright spots (or high-albedo features) inside a crater, incorrectly reported as observed in earlier Hubble images, were seen in a 19 February 2015 image, leading to speculation about a possible cryovolcanic origin or outgassing.

On 3 March 2015, a NASA spokesperson said the spots are consistent with highly reflective materials containing ice or salts, but that cryovolcanism is unlikely.

On 11 May 2015, NASA released a higher resolution image showing that, instead of one or two spots, there are actually several

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