Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2020
The dwarf planet Ceres - long believed to be a barren space rock - is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the NASA Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its surface. Now a team
Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: study
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