Ceres is Still Evolving and Has Seasonal Water Cycles (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Ceres is Still Evolving and Has Seasonal Water Cycles (5 of 6)

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Distribution of carbonate band center and band depth in a region close to Ahuna Mons and Liberalia Mons with zoom on (A) Xevioso crater, (B) Ahuna Mons, and (C) Begbalel crater. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 March 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The papers, by F.G. Carrozzo at Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali in Roma, Italy, and colleagues and A. Raponi at Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali in Roma, Italy, and colleagues were titled, "Nature, formation, and distribution of carbonates on Ceres" and "Variations in the amount of water ice on Ceres' surface suggest a seasonal water cycle."

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[Credit: Carrozzo <em>et al.</em>, <i>Sci. Adv</i>. 2018;4: e1701645]

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