Ceres By: Anna, Daniel, and Laura

Contents Mysterious Bright Spots NASA's Dawn spacecraft Ceres's Surface and it's Diversity Ceres's Discovery Ahuna Mons Ceres's Location and Size Time on Ceres

The Mysterious Bright Spots

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft It's goal is to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres Vesta has a dry surface Ceres may possess a weak atmosphere

Ceres's Surface and it's Diversity Ceres is believed to be 25 percent ice contributing to it's total mass. "It was active, with processes that resulted in different materials in different regions." -Chris Russell

Ceres's Discovery Ceres was the first object discovered in the Asteroid belt and was discovered on January 1st, 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi

Ahuna Mons

Where is it? Coordinates: RA 19 degrees 24' 0" Dec 59 degrees 0.000' Distance from sun: 2.77 Au How big is Ceres? Mass: 9.47x10^20 kg Diameter: about 580 miles (around the same sixe as Texas) Surface Area: 2,770000Km squared (1,100,249 square miles) Ceres's Location and Size

How long is a year on Ceres? 4.6 earth years How long is a day on Ceres? 9 hours Time on Ceres

Works Cited NASA. "Ceres - Overview | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration." NASA Solar System Exploration. NASA, n.d. Web. 11 Feb "Dawn's Ceres Color Map." NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 17 Feb "Solar System Exploration." Solar System Exploration. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb "Dawn Mission Overview." NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 17 Feb