Ceres is Still Evolving and Has Seasonal Water Cycles (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Ceres is Still Evolving and Has Seasonal Water Cycles (1 of 6)

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Distribution and intensity of the carbonate absorption in VIR data. 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>, Sci. Adv. 2018;4: e1701645]

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