Different carbonates have been detected on Ceres, and their abundance and spatial
distribution have been mapped using a visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR), the …

Context. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft launched by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has
been conducting observations of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu since June 2018. The …

The surface mineralogy of dwarf planet Ceres appears to be dominated by products of rock–
fluid interactions, such as phyllosilicates—some of which are NH4-bearing—and …

Occator Crater on dwarf planet Ceres hosts the so-called faculae, several areas with
material 5 to 10 times the albedo of the average Ceres surface: Cerealia Facula, the …

Observing dwarf planets and other large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) from vantage points
between 8 and 47 au from the Sun, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found diversity in …

Carbonaceous chondrites (CCs) are important materials for understanding the early
evolution of the solar system and delivery of volatiles and organic material to the early Earth …

We present a global spectrophotometric characterization of the Ceres surface using Dawn
Framing Camera (FC) images. We identify the photometric model that yields the best results …

Phobos is the target of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX), the next sample return
mission of the Japanese space agency (JAXA). The mission will investigate the origin of …

Context. The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource
Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) has been observing near-Earth asteroid …

The otherwise homogeneous surface of Ceres is dotted with hundreds of anomalously
bright, predominantly carbonate-bearing areas, termed “faculae,” with Bond albedos ranging …