Product Information: Update: Oct. 14, 2021 to version 2 which includes polygonal impact craters (Excel table) as described in Zeilnhofer, 2021. The Cerean crater database contains 44,594 craters…

Product Information: The Dawn Framing Camera (FC) captured images of Ceres with a resolution of about 140 meters per pixel (m) in 2015 (Preusker et al., 2016). German Aerospace Center (DLR)…

Product Information: The Dawn framing camera (FC) acquired images of Ceres with a resolution of about 400 meters per pixel (m) during approach in 2015 (Preusker et al., 2016). German Aerospace…

Prior to NASA’s Dawn mission, the dwarf planet Ceres was widely believed to contain a substantial ice-rich layer below its rocky surface. The existence of such a layer has significant…

New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006 as part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program. The spacecraft will help scientists back on Earth study the surface and atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto, its…

History: The IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites was established as a consequence of a resolution adopted by Commissions 4 and 16 at…