Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:30AM
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If so it would be some sort of ice volcano. I didn't find where it said what the spectrum was for the camera, infra-red? visible? something else? One theory for it is that it is a dust covered ice ball, a large enough impact could uncover the ice (although I would expect there to me a sublimation cloud at that point.)
If the core is nickle iron it could be a chunk that melted and reformed after impact.
Or it could be a bad pixel :-) but that seems unlikely as it moves with Ceres and not with Dawn.
If the core is nickle iron it could be a chunk that melted and reformed after impact.
Or it could be a bad pixel :-) but that seems unlikely as it moves with Ceres and not with Dawn.