"The discovery back in 2016 posed a riddle: Many craters in the polar regions of Ceres remain shadowed all year—which on Ceres lasts 4.6 Earth years—and therefore remain frigidly cold, but ...

However, new discoveries from the Consus crater do not support this idea. Between 2015 and 2018, NASA's Dawn space probe studied Ceres up close. In multiple impact craters, whitish salt deposits ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Dawn Spacecraft is flying 240 miles above Ceres, and the images it is capturing are revealing fascinating characteristics of the minor planet's surface.

Those with which we are more familiar are in almost all cases crater-strewn irregularly shaped bodies that can even have tiny moons. Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few ...

Given the findings, researchers highlight the Ertunet Crater region as a prime target for future missions, either to conduct in situ studies or to return samples from Ceres for further analysis.