You can see a substantial amount
of bright material, which the latest analyses indicate may be a kind of salt.
The crater has
bright material exposed on its rim, which could be salts, and its flat floor likely formed from impact melt and debris.
This map from NASA's Dawn mission shows locations of
bright material on dwarf planet Ceres.
Cerealia Facula, in the center of the crater, consists of
bright material covering a 6 - mile - wide (10 - kilometer - wide) pit, within which sits a small dome.
Physicists think that a jet of fast - moving,
bright material blasts out of the center of neutron star collisions.
The bright areas of Occator Crater — Cerealia Facula in the center and Vinalia Faculae to the side — are examples of
bright material found on crater floors on Ceres.
The mountain Ahuna Mons gets its own fourth category — the one instance on Ceres
where bright material is unaffiliated with any impact crater.
The numerous bright spots found across the crater
suggest bright material may be just below the surface, exposed through small impacts and landslides.
Use bright materials like this sunny yellow tipi and clashing colourful patterns on cushions and blankets for a festive summer feel.
Examination of some of the scarps with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that
the bright material is frozen water.
As Dawn continues the final phase of its mission, in which it will descend to lower altitudes than ever before, scientists will continue learning about the origins of
the bright material on Ceres and what gave rise to the enigmatic features in Occator.
All
the bright material in Occator Crater is made of salt - rich material, which was likely once mixed in water.
Over hundreds of millions of years,
bright material has mixed with the dark material that forms the bulk of Ceres» surface, as well as debris ejected during impacts.
Separately, in the third category,
bright material can be found in the material ejected when craters were formed.
«Previous research has shown that
the bright material is made of salts, and we think subsurface fluid activity transported it to the surface to form some of the bright spots,» Stein said.
Impacting bodies likely exposed
bright material that was already in the subsurface or had formed in a previous impact event.
More commonly, in the second category,
bright material is found on the rims of craters, streaking down toward the floors.
But they said that one remaining mystery is why
the bright materials are still so pristine today.
They also found evidence that
the bright material on the surface was most likely a residue of mineral salts.
The mysterious bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres has been revealed in its highest resolution yet, and
the bright materials in it appear to be coming from a fractured dome — a possible portal to icy materials in the subsurface.
Study authors, led by Andreas Nathues at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, write that
the bright material is consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite.
Occator itself is 60 miles (90 kilometers) in diameter, and its central pit, covered by
this bright material, measures about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide and 0.3 miles (0.5 kilometers) deep.
Some of
this brighter material appears to have flowed further downslope to form the heart shape, as the small impact occurred on the ejecta blanket of a much larger impact crater.
The inner portion of a crater called Occator contains
the brightest material on Ceres.
In one study, scientists identify
this bright material as a kind of salt.
A drive to the Indian market in Dr Yusuf Dadoo Street (Grey Street) for spices, curry powders and
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