Ceres and Vesta, two prominent bodies in the asteroid belt, have garnered significant attention due to their unique geological features and potential for past and present activity. Recent research ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's scientific camera system ...

Dawn was a mission that explored Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the slightly smaller Vesta. It beamed its last data back to Earth 6 years ago ...

On the one hand it acquires images of the surface of the target asteroids with a high degree of precision. On the other hand, it is an indispensable tool for the spacecraft's navigation, as its ...

About the mission NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's ...

But as you can see in the table at the bottom, for a while, schoolkids had to memorize Ceres, Juno, Pallas, and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands ...