[ad_1] This site can earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It's been a rough week for NASA missions. Earlier this week we covered news that Kepler, …
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Dwarf Planet Ceres Got an Epic Makeover from Wobbly Surface
[ad_1] This view of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows what the dwarf planet would look like to the human eye. A new study suggests the rocky world's surface has been wobbled …
Read More »Scientists have discovered dozens of ice volcanoes on Ceres
[ad_1] NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA It sounds like something that George R. R. Martin might prepare in the next Game of Thrones book: Ice Volcanoes. …
Read More »Massive ice volcanoes once covered dwarf planet Ceres years ago
[ad_1] This view of the dwarf planet Ceres shows the mountain and probably the "ice volcano" Ahuna Mons on the right edge and the luminous points of the Occator crater on the …
Read More »NASA is looking for ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres
[ad_1] For scientists, the summit, about 13,000 feet high, corresponds to the bill: it was their first discovery of a water volcano on the dwarf planet. They named it Ahuna Mons and …
Read More »Ice volcanoes help shape the topography of Ceres
[ad_1] NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI Ahuna Mons, a mountain on Ceres. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Ahuna …
Read More »Ice volcanoes have probably exploded for billions of years on Ceres
[ad_1] Enlarge / Ahuna Mons, a probable cryovolcano. All the bodies of our solar system started to heat up, the energy being created by their gravitational collapse and their subsequent bombardment. The …
Read More »Dawn probes the history of cryovolcanism on Ceres
[ad_1] A recent study reveals the role of past cryovolcanism – and probably present – on the giant asteroid Ceres. Ahuna Mons is an imposing mound on Ceres, probably created when a …
Read More »Ceres takes life from an ice volcano at a time
[ad_1] Ceres Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory According to a new study by the University of Arizona, ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate, on average, enough material to fill …
Read More »Mud volcanoes spring from the dwarf planet Ceres
[ad_1] Nothing is normal about Ceres, let alone about its mud volcanoes. In a new research published in Astronomy of nature, a large team of astronomers presented a new, strange worldview of …
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