The Dwarf Planet Ceres Has a Dark Secret

Timelapse of a “persistently shadowed” crater on Ceres. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

You thought those bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres were cool? That was only the half of it. Ceres is also covered in dark spots, craters that—because of their position—never see the light of day. Now, astronomers have discovered that at least one and perhaps many of these shadowy regions are filled with water ice.

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Source: Gizmodo – The Dwarf Planet Ceres Has a Dark Secret