Ceres: Pluto's little sister: The Dawn spacecraft over the volcanoes of a dwarf planet (Explorers of Minor Worlds)

It paled against spectacular Pluto: its tiny sister world, asteroid (1) Ceres, the dwarf planet closest to Earth that was observed by a space probe since 2015. Though it is a surprising object, too, with a mountain like there is no other in the solar system, with brightly shining salt pans - and with a camouflaging hood. For Ceres does not belong where it is now, between Mars and Jupiter, it only pretends that it did. Where did it come from? Winter 2016/17 provided astonishing clues to Ceres’ strange history which are presented in this book, now updated in a completely revised edition. Read more