Organics at Ernutet (IMAGE)

Brown University

Organics at Ernutet

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Last year, the Dawn spacecraft spied organic material near Ernutet crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, largest denizen of the asteroid belt. A new analysis suggests those organics could be more plentiful than originally thought.

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NASA / Hannah Kaplan

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