If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because our moon and planet Mercury also have such polar ice deposits, which have been studied for decades. "For Ceres, the story started in 2016, when the ...

In prior missions, traces of organic materials were identified on the surfaces of other celestial bodies, such as Enceladus and Titan, moons of Saturn, and now Ceres joins the list. The detection ...

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Ceres Sample Return would recover material from ... Enceladus Multiple Flyby would scrutinize a small moon of Saturn that’s thought to harbor a subsurface ocean beneath its icy surface.

Those with which we are more familiar are in almost all cases crater-strewn irregularly shaped bodies that can even have tiny moons. Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few ...

Global regolith thermophysical properties of the Moon from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. DOI: 10.1002/2017JE005387 Hayne, P.O. and Aharonson, O., ...