Ceres' Ice Crust Discovered

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Cerean craters

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Asteroid Ceres is a former ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb

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Scientists have long argued that visible craters on the surface meant that Ceres could not be very icy.

Researchers at Purdue University and the NASA 's Jet Propulsion Lab now believe Ceres is a very icy object that possibly was once a muddy ocean world.

The team's discovery is contradictory to the previous belief that Ceres was relatively dry.

Ceres may be a valuable point of comparison for the ocean-hosting icy moons of the outer solar system, like Jupiter 's moon Europa and Saturn 's moon Enceladus.

Some of the bright features we see at Ceres' surface are the remnants of Ceres' muddy ocean, now mostly or entirely frozen, erupted onto the surface.

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