July 27, 2016

Visible (on the left) and topographic (on the right) map of the dwarf planet Ceres (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

An article published in the journal “Nature Communications” describes a research on the craters found on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres by NASA’s Dawn space probe. A team of scientists led by Simone Marchi of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder argues that there are fewer large craters than expected and the reason is that were obliterated.