Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the only dwarf planet to have been orbited by spacecraft. Â If Ceres is icy, it is an especially useful cornerstone to learn about the more distant moons and ocean worlds of the outer solar system. Â However, most current literature concludes that ...
The nature of water ice on Mars has important implications for understanding the Martian climate system, which undergoes climate cycles analogous to Earth’s Milankovitch cycles. The distribution and properties of ice on Mars therefore provides us a window into these extraterrestrial “Ice Ages.†I will present the results of spacecraft ...
