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Suppose it erupted & froze? Ice is really reflective... j/s
The surface of this object must be pretty cold, right? Does it make sense that a volcano shows up like that?
How do we know if the bright spot is on top of a mountain, or at the bottom of a crater?
I'm really curious to know what it is.
There could be cryo-volcanic activity on the surface. But I doubt its water, the way the lights are, it doesn't reflect like water would. Its a light source. Why is there a light source on a dwarf planet, in the asteroid belt, in a cold region of space?
Why would we even go to Ceres for in the first place? There are plenty of other dwarf planets to visit, and we pick Ceres? Something tells me that they knew about this before they released it.
Its like that Rosetta comet probe. Find it curious how ESA detected a radio signal coming from the comet 20 years ago, and then NASA launches a spacecraft that takes 10 years to get to said comet. Yeah...