Dwarf Planet Ceres

News and facts from the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Orbited by @NASA_Dawn since 6 March 2015; Contact lost 2 Nov. 2018 #DuskForDawn

[Dwarf Planet Ceres @CeresToday]

For a better grasp of what's going on in the final weeks of @NASA_Dawn's mission, read the back-to-back Dawn Journals published this week on the Planetary Society's website https://t.co/HIABqb4gCS

[Dwarf Planet Ceres @CeresToday]

Dwarf planet Ceres has reservoirs of salty water https://t.co/20lD1EIi4B via @ucberkeley

[NASA's OSIRIS-REx @OSIRISREx]

Check out my view of Nightingale.

[NASA's OSIRIS-REx @OSIRISREx]

I’m going to site Nightingale! 🛰🌑🎉 #XMarksTheSpot

[Nature Astronomy @NatureAstronomy]

Molten iron-rich material can erupt to the surface of asteroids while they are cooling from the outside in: "ferrovolcanism". #Ferrovolcanism could have produced pallasite meteorites and substantially altered Psyche's surface. Johnson et al.: https://t.co/ibRmDhlFY6 #epscdps2019

[Space Initiatives @AsteroidEnergy]

GAUSS -- A Sample Return Mission to Ceres (with cyrogenic sample return!) https://t.co/08LOgKWsrd

[Anna Persson @AnnaPerssonDR]

Look Out Below! Japan's Hayabusa2 Drops Target Markers on Asteroid Ryugu https://t.co/Iy9aSTTBPa

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

LIVE NOW 🔴Expecting the unexpected… in space

Join us for a talk on how we repaired a spacecraft when it was millions of miles away. Watch and chat at https://t.co/AmrSxUsETV

[Mission To Psyche @MissionToPsyche]

Hey, you! 👋 Check out this #awesome @NatGeo article written by @MichaelGreshko! It summarizes findings from a new paper published by @Nature @NatureAstronomy about ferrovolcanics on the @NASAPsyche asteroid! 🌋 Click the link for more 🔗 https://t.co/gPE4P867z5

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars, shrouded in morning fog, illustrated by Kim Poor. In the sky are faint visions of Earth, Venus, and Phobos.

[NASA Photo Bot @NASA_photo_bot]

Cornelia is the Pits https://t.co/sKIAnFAppB

[NASA's OSIRIS-REx @OSIRISREx]

I was able to capture this perspective by flying over Bennu's southern hemisphere (at about -40° latitude) while pointing PolyCam up to the far north. This frame shows Bennu from the equator all the way up to about 50° latitude in the northern hemisphere.

https://t.co/VCGPMhoaaL

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

For 21 years, two NASA engineers & I have been making up really bad space jokes and emailing them to each other, sometimes 10 per day. An example from today: "The Dawn mission found salt deposits on the surface of Ceres. I wonder if any planets have pepper deposits."

[Dwarf Planet Ceres @CeresToday]

Postcards from Ceres: Lava Flows in Occator
https://t.co/KtQmGRVTbH

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Phew! After orbiting two extraterrestrial destinations and 4.3 billion miles of travel through space, it’s time for some recognition.

The @NASA_Dawn team received the Swigert Award for Space Exploration during the #SpaceSymposium earlier this week: https://t.co/3qZVOtUFmJ

[Cassini @CassiniSaturn]

Four years ago today, our Dawn spacecraft captured this sequence as it approached the dwarf planet Ceres. This week, the Space Foundation presented the Dawn mission team with the 2019 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration: https://t.co/Ek3qp6l0FU

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Feed your brain with space facts this #NationalCerealDay. 🥣

"Cereal" is derived from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and grain. Ceres is also the name of the dwarf planet explored by @NASA_Dawn. https://t.co/hA3ZGiFCD3

[Dwarf Planet Ceres @CeresToday]

Postcards from Ceres: Ezinu on the Limb https://t.co/HHfKFbxKdj

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

4 years ago today (March 6, 2015) @NASA_Dawn enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres - the largest object in the asteroid belt. Dawn had already spent 2 years orbiting Vesta. After delivering a treasure trove of data, the mission was concluded on November 1, 2018