Water ice, abundant in the outer solar system, is volatile in the inner solar system. On the
largest airless bodies of the inner solar system (Mercury, the Moon, Ceres), water can be an …

Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and
robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange …

We provide the first solar system wide compendium of speleogenic processes and products.
An examination of 15 solar system bodies revealed that six cave‐forming processes occur …

Ceres, the most water-rich body in the inner solar system after Earth, has recently been
recognized to have astrobiological importance. Chemical and physical measurements …

We present a comprehensive global catalog of the geomorphological features with clear or
potential relevance to subsurface ice identified during the Dawn spacecraft's primary and …

High-resolution mapping of Ceres, Vesta and the icy satellites of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto
reveals a rich variety of well-preserved impact crater morphologies on these low gravity …

Aims. We model thermal evolution and water-rock differentiation of small ice-rock objects
that accreted at different heliocentric distances, while also considering migration into the …

Large terrestrial bodies in our solar system like the Earth, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon
exhibit geologically complex surfaces with compositional heterogeneity. From past studies …

Ceres is a large water-rich dwarf planet located within the asteroid belt. Its surface displays
evidence of material sourced from a deep subsurface liquid brine layer within recent …

Abstract The Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) instrument on the Dawn mission
observed Ceres's surface at different spatial resolutions, revealing a nearly uniform global …