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That Giant Bright Spot On Dwarf Planet Ceres Just Got Even Cooler
Ceres’s bright spots have been an enticing mystery ever since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began approaching the dwarf planet in the autumn of 2015. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) suggests the brightest of those shiny splotches — located within the enormous Occator crater in the northern hemisphere — is…