In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn’t visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres’ inner structure: Dawn’s own motion. Since ...
A team of researchers has used data from the Dawn spacecraft to piece together clues about the interior of the dwarf planet Ceres. The new data indicates that while Ceres, which is the largest body in ...
Even though the interior of Ceres cannot be seen by the images that NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has taken in orbit around the dwarf planet, Dawn is still a key aspect in determining Ceres’ inner structure.
Fortune must have had a pretty good time when the solar nebula exploded, tossed, roared, and turned around 4.6 billion years ago. If the slightest something hadn’t gone the way it did, we wouldn’t be ...