Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 7:14 PM – An underground ocean could be lurking nearly 40 kilometers below the surface of a dwarf planet, Ceres.
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This is quite a discovery for a planet of barely 950 square kilometers.
At least, this is the hypothesis put forward by Italian researchers after having studied the star at length.
It is the discovery of the presence of sodium chloride on the surface and that of a brine reservoir under the Occator crater, almost 20 million years old, that allow us to suggest it.
Water in the liquid state would therefore be more frequent in the solar system than what was initially believed.
NASA’s Dawn mission, which scanned Ceres from February 2015 to October 2018, has unraveled some mysteries of this dwarf planet, discovered in 1801. However, several questions remain unanswered.
