NASA’s Dawn Finds Ceres Covered By Subsurface Ice

Credit: Dawn: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s long-running Dawn mission, now orbiting the large main belt asteroid Ceres, has revealed a welcome discovery for those seeking potential astrobiology or resources that could be exploited by future explorers. Ceres’s water ice content is estimated at 17 to 30%. At the upper end, that...

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