Ceres, Pluto: There’s More to Learn

That's part of a picture from New Horizons: a sample from the highest-resolution images the spacecraft has started sending back.

We're pretty sure that the mountains are frozen water, and the flat parts softer "ice:" probably including frozen nitrogen.

The first journal paper using New Horizons' flyby data was published in October: but there's a great deal left to study, and even more still stored on New Horizons. (November 13, 2015)

Other scientists think they've found evidence that those bright spots in Occator Crater are frozen water, exposed when something hit Ceres. If they're right, the impact(s) happened recently. I'll get back to that.

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