Saturday 17 December 2016

Ice found in the eternally dark craters at Ceres' poles



NASA's Dawn deep-space probe has discovered ice inside the eternally shadowed craters of the polar regions of the dwarf planet Ceres. Discovered using onboard cameras built by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the water ice survives in the crater interiors thanks to the extreme cold there.

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Category: Space

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Max Planck Institute

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