Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

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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.

From then on, we enter uncharted territory.” After a short approach phase, Dawn will swing into orbit around Ceres in March 2015. In the following months, the distance between the spacecraft and the ...

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is dwarf planet Ceres: a Texas-size world with an ice volcano, shiny salt deposits, and other features that suggest it hides a giant ocean. NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

Ceres has been the focus of more recent NASA investigations including the DAWN mission which sent a probe to the celestial object. DAWN launched on Sept. 27, 2007. After visiting the asteroid ...