{"id":4471,"date":"2015-12-09T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:14:53","slug":"bright-spots-on-ceres-suggest-water-on-the-dwarf-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/bright-spots-on-ceres-suggest-water-on-the-dwarf-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright spots on Ceres suggest water on the dwarf planet<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNjktBvsGA0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bright spots on the surface of Ceres suggest there is water activity in the main asteroid belt, and that asteroids may be more active than previously thought. Researchers\u00a0analyzed data obtained from the Dawn spacecraft to make detailed observations of Ceres surface.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers detected 130 bright spots, which they believe contain haze, showing the involvement of a volatile component, which the researchers believe to be water. They believe the haze shows the asteroid, which had previously been thought of as a dwarf planet, is geologically active, a surprising find on an asteroid.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team wrote in the paper that Ceres is the first large object in the main asteroid belt to show signs of &#8220;comet-like&#8221; activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature15754\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>December 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Andreas Nathues, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany<br \/>\nE. A. Cloutis, Department of Geography, The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/h4>\n<p>Thumbnail image credit &#8211; NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA\/MPS\/DLR\/IDA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright spots on the surface of Ceres suggest there is water activity in the main asteroid belt, and that asteroids may be more active than previously thought. Researchers\u00a0analyzed data obtained from the Dawn spacecraft to make detailed observations of Ceres surface.\u00a0 The researchers detected 130 bright spots, which they believe contain haze, showing the involvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[847,533],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-manitoba-en","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1a7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}