Dwarf Planet Ceres Is Full of Water: Biggest Asteroid in Solar System Was an Ocean World : SCIENCE : Tech Times
New observations offer evidence that there’s water everywhere on dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists revealed that data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows water ice is ubiquitous in the biggest asteroid in the Solar System
Scientists have long theorized that the surface and subsurface of Ceres has vast stores of water ice. A model developed in 1989 suggested the presence of layers of ice measuring between 3 to 330 feet in the surface and subsurface of this extraterrestrial world.
The model was created using data gathered from ground-based telescopes, but recently gathered data suggest that estimates based on this decades-old model was not far off.