Picture: Nasa
To date this is the largest ice volcano on the tiny planet.
Initially attracted the attention of professionals in the mere fact that on the surface of Ceres can be found just one volcano. Scientists report that soon Ahune also face this problem, but it will happen in just a few tens of million. Years.
It turned out Ahune Mons - the youngest volcano in the world, while others were destroyed by 100%.
Millions of years ago, Ceres, is likely to have been a large number of spewing kriomagmu formations. However, with changed and once bumpy surface becomes virtually uniform over time the structure of the planet. Not because of soil erosion, the mountains and volcanoes in the world, but just because kriovulkany emerged from their own form.
Picture: Nasa
The team suspects that Ahune Mons, by the standards of being a volcano is still very young (he was only some 200 million years old) is still just did not have time podvergutsya relaxation.
Scientists have discovered that the volcanoes of Ceres have gone missing. For a long time scientists have wondered what kind of education, but later managed to find out that this is not the plateau and mountain, and krivovulkan, about as tall as four kilometers. At the bottom is clearly visible Ahune Mons domed swelling, which may be different kriovulkanom, whose age is about 500 million. Years.
Ceres was discovered in the 1,801th and is named after the Roman goddess of fertility. September 27, 2007 Mr. Dawn space station was launched toward her.
All of these studies were done with the help of a computer model, and even Dawn probe. Professionals do not exclude that it cryovolcanism processes behind the emergence of these spots. | ryb
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