Past Habitability on Ceres Revealed by Dawn: Subsurface Ocean, Organics, and Surface Salts
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NASA’s Dawn mission suggests Ceres once had a subsurface ocean where hot, salty brine interacted with rock and released gases for billions of years, with organic compounds present that could support microbial life, and bright surface salts signaling a deep liquid reservoir in the past, though today Ceres is cold and any habitable period would have occurred early in its history.
