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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the other hand, it is an indispensable tool for the spacecraft's navigation, as its approach to Vesta and Ceres will be 'visual'. The camera is a first-class instrument for mapping and examining ...