One important, almost ubiquitous, tool for understanding the surfaces of solid bodies
throughout the solar system is the study of impact craters. While measuring a distribution of …

The surface and internal structure of Ceres show evidence of a global process of aqueous
alteration, indicating the existence of an ocean in the past. However, it is not clear whether …

INTRODUCTION Thermochemical models have predicted that the dwarf planet Ceres has,
to some extent, formed a mantle. Moreover, due to viscous relaxation, these models indicate …

Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt with a radius of approximately 470 km. In part
due to its large mass, Ceres more closely approaches hydrostatic equilibrium than major …

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt (940 km diameter), provides a unique opportunity
to study the interior structure of a volatile-rich dwarf planet. Variations in a planetary body's …

The aim of this chapter is to describe available evidence for the existence of relict ocean
worlds. The focus is on Ceres as a clear example of such a world as indicated by the results …

Inspired by the recent results of the Dawn mission, thermodynamic models of rock alteration
and brine evaporation have been used to help understand the conditions under which water …

The geophysical evolution of many icy moons and dwarf planets seems to have provided
opportunities for interaction between liquid water and rock (silicate and organic solids) …

Different carbonates have been detected on Ceres, and their abundance and spatial
distribution have been mapped using a visible and infrared map** spectrometer (VIR), the …

Asteroids provide fundamental clues to the formation and evolution of planetesimals.
Collisional models based on the depletion of the primordial main belt of asteroids predict 10 …