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  • NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

    Dwarf planet Ceres is 'oozing' with water

    by 
    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    12.16.2016

    Scientists already knew via remote observations that Ceres, the dwarf planet (or humongous asteroid if you prefer), has plenty of water in it. The Dawn probe has now revealed that the asteroid is composed of as much as 30 percent water at the poles, explaining its ice volcano and weird bright spots. "It's just oozing," Planetary Science Institute's Thomas Prettyman told Nature, adding that you'd "just swipe and find the ice table" at Ceres' northern pole.