History of Ceres’s Cold Traps Based on Refined Shape Models
Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) in the north polar region of Ceres have been previously mapped by the Dawn spacecraft. Putative ice deposits are found in some of these PSRs, whereas most PSRs host no bright deposits, which is thought to be due to oscillations of the axis tilt with a ∼25 ka perio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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| Series: | The Planetary Science Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad3639 |