PASADENA, Calif. - The dwarf planet Ceres was long believed to be a barren rock, but new images from NASA’s Dawn mission proves otherwise.Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has a gravitational pull strong enough to shape its structure.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was able to give scientists groundbreaking, high-definition images of the mysteriously bright spots on its surface.When the mission initially concluded in October of 2018, scientists determined from the images that the bright spots were deposits made from compounds of sodium, carbon and oxygen.