Bright hydrothermal deposits on dwarf planet Ceres have a style all their own

Columbia, MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2020

Data from NASA's recent Dawn mission show that salty groundwaters in Occator Crater on Ceres were driven to the surface by impact heat and formed low mounds and pits, as well as thin sheets of sodium-carbonate minerals from multitudes of small hot-spring seeps. Using a combination of stereo images and detailed topographic maps derived from Dawn observations, scientists from the Lunar and P