NASA showed craters on the Ceres (video) – Dni.Ru

NASA researchers were able to create a color video rotation of the dwarf planet Ceres, through images obtained from the automatic interplanetary station Dawn. New materials have allowed scientists closer to unraveling the origin of the bright salt craters that stand out for their brightness in the landscape of the celestial body.

Scientists around the world have long been struggling with the mystery of origin of the bright spots that are visible on the surface planet Ceres. As it turned out, most of them is a collision with craters from meteorites.

Such NASA experts were able to come after studying images taken automatic space station Dawn. From the pictures, scientists Create color video rotation of the dwarf planet. It was published on one of the channels of the American space agency to YouTube.

image analysis by scientists Gettinbergskogo University. They were able to establish that the bright spots on the planet emerge due to the interaction of a magnesium salt and sulfuric acid.

Researchers believe that a large number of bright craters (they observed about 130) suggests that below the surface there is a layer of salty ice, According to the TV channel “Star”. That he stands out from the soil of Ceres, which is similar in color to the asphalt in the world.

The first reports that dwarf planet was found lights, appeared in early 2015. Then the experts felt that they may be signs of volcanic activity. As the research probe, scientists were better able to see the surface of Ceres.

The US probe Dawn, launched by NASA in late September 2007, It became the first spacecraft, which studied the one heavenly body – Vesta, one of the largest asteroids, came from its orbit after a year and went to another – Ceres, the closest to the Earth of the dwarf planet.

10:08 / 10.12.2015 NASA, video, space, Tsetsera

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