Pitted materials in craters could indicate buried ice on asteroids

Saturday, July 8, 2017 - 03:42 in Astronomy & Space

Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Hanna G. Sizemore says.

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