Bad Astronomy -
22 Jun 2015 19:07
Ceres keeps getting weirder. Those white spots on the surface we've been seeing for months are still mystifying, and we can now add another bizarro surface feature to the list: A huge 5 kilometer tall mountain sitting in the middle of an otherwise relatively flat part of the asteroid. Um. Why is that there? On Earth, mountains can form for several reasons. Continents crash together, creating wrinkles in the surface. That's what the Himalayas are. Of course, Ceres doesn't have plate tectonics! Th...
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