Detection of Ceres dwarf crystals filled with water

Ceres dwarf planet gives scientists a lot of surprises. Initially, the 2.5-mile-high ice volcanoes filled with salt, bright spots that embarrassed scientists for months and most recently discovered that the planet was full of water.

According to Engadget, Ceres dwarf planet contains a lot of water inside. The probe Dawn reveals that this asteroid has about 30% water at the poles, explaining the ice volcanoes and strange light spots scientists have found.

Planet dwarf Ceres contains a lot of water inside.

After entering orbit about 240 miles above Ceres, the ship Dawn directs the system to detect neutrinos and Gamma rays (GRAND) into the surface of the planet. This device can collect water by measuring the decay of gamma rays and neutrons within a few square meters of the surface. That tells the exploration team the amount of hydrogen gas near the surface, from which they deduce the current amount of water has been frozen or locked inside surface minerals.

In general, Ceres may contain 17-30% water, a very large proportion, because selling the planet weighs about 1 quintillion tons (equivalent to a million thousand tons, or 10 ^ 18 tons). This ratio implies that the scale of water on Ceros is about 0.2-0.3 quintillion tons, not much less than Earth. Our planet has about 15 quintillion tons of seawater, but 10 times larger than Ceros.

Ceres may contain 17-30% water, a very large proportion, because selling this planet weighs about 1 quintillion tons.

Scientists have hypothesized that liquid water once flowed inside Ceres in the early years of our solar system. But when colder, ice on the surface sublimates (moving directly from solid to gas) at the equator of Ceres, or dissolves into space or forms a very thin atmosphere. However, in colder regions at high latitudes, water can survive in the surface for more than 4.5 billion years of Ceres' life cycle.