Washington, March 17, 2016, 08:29 – REGNUM The mysterious white spots crater Okkator on the dwarf planet Ceres, change their brightness by changing the day or night, according to the European southern Observatory.
Scientists believe that this is the result of active evaporative processes.
Moar Paolo (Paolo Moaro) of the Observatory of Trieste, has made the discovery, he said that the spectrum of white spots Ceres is shifted to the side, not only under the influence of the planet’s rotation around its axis, but also because of some other reasons. So far identified is that the reflectivity of white spots Ceres is changing itself.
Analysis of changes in brightness spots at different times of the day allowed to put forward the version that the spots are made up of some ice, evaporating in the sun and freezing without them.
If this is the case, then this can be considered a dwarf planet is truly unique, because its depths are showing some activity. Nothing like this is not observed in similar space objects.
Recall that the dwarf planet Ceres orbits the Sun as part of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. In 2006, Ceres was classified as a dwarf planet of the Solar System
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