{"id":85617,"date":"2020-08-14T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16890"},"modified":"2020-08-14T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:18:46","slug":"nasa-data-suggests-ocean-of-salty-water-on-dwarf-planet-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-data-suggests-ocean-of-salty-water-on-dwarf-planet-ceres\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA data suggests ocean of \u2018salty water\u2019 on dwarf planet Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According to the data collected by NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft, dwarf planet <strong>Ceres<\/strong> reportedly has salty water underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ocean World: <\/strong>These findings have given Ceres the status of an <strong>ocean world<\/strong> as it has a big reservoir of salty water underneath its frigid surface.<\/li><li><strong>Subsurface Oceans on other Celestial Bodies:<\/strong> Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, Saturn\u2019s moon Enceladus, Neptune\u2019s moon Triton and the dwarf planet Pluto are also known to have Subsurface Oceans.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Dwarf planet Ceres: <\/strong>It is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system.<ul><li>It has a diameter of about 950 km which is more than one-fourth of Earth\u2019s moon.<\/li><li>It does not have any moon or rings.It also has a 92 km wide crater named Occator located in its northern hemisphere.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Dwarf Planet: <\/strong>According to the International Astronomical Union, a dwarf planet is a celestial body that- orbits the sun, has enough mass to assume a nearly round shape, has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit and is not a moon.<\/li><li><strong>Dawn Spacecraft: <\/strong>It is a retired space probe launched by NASA in 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to the data collected by NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft, dwarf planet Ceres reportedly has salty water underground. Facts: Ocean World: These findings have given Ceres the status of an ocean world as it has a big reservoir of salty water underneath its frigid surface. Subsurface Oceans on other Celestial Bodies: Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, Saturn\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-data-suggests-ocean-of-salty-water-on-dwarf-planet-ceres\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA data suggests ocean of \u2018salty water\u2019 on dwarf planet Ceres<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3009],"class_list":["post-85617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-dwarf-planet-ceres","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773241},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}