August 5, 2016

Artistic representation of Ceres' possible internal layers (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a research about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Ceres. A team led by Ryan Park of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) analyzed very precisely the movements of the Dawn space probe, which is orbiting Ceres, to get clues that suggest that it’s composed of a number of layers with the densest in its core and some weak layers that include ice water.