NASA announced that Dawn spacecraft has successfully managed to map dwarf planet Ceres’ dimly lit portions where scientists believe that there could be several ice deposits within billion-year-old craters. Researchers explained that Ceres’s has some spots that it are permanently enshrouded in darkness, and temperatures can sink way below the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon or planet … [Read more...]
New Horizons Probe Readies for Rendezvous with another Kuiper Belt Object
NASA’s New Horizons probe, which made history last summer with its flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, was given the green light to travel deeper into the Kuiper Belt and explore another Kuiper Belt object, dubbed 2014 MU69. The tiny probe is expected to reach MU69 in early January 2019. NASA also announced that Dawn spacecraft will stay put on its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres as plans for it to … [Read more...]
Astronomers discover dwarf planet ‘Ceres’ spouting water vapour
The European astronomers have discovered a dwarf planet, Ceres, in the asteroid belt spouting water vapour. According to the scientists this discovery has strengthened the existing theories of how life began on Earth. Notably, several researches have said that life was kickstarted on the Earth by a bombardment of space rocks. Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt lying between two … [Read more...]
