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Intriguing geology of Ceres revealed in new pictures

NASA mission shows dwarf planet's surface in rich detail.

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Witze, A. Intriguing geology of Ceres revealed in new pictures. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.17819

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