Occator /ɒˈkeɪtər/ is an impact crater located on Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...
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up occator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Occator may refer to: Occator (mythology), an assistant-god of the Roman goddess Ceres Occator (crater),...
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an 80-kilometer (50 mi) crater called Occator. The largest and brightest component of the cluster is in the center of the crater, with dimmer spots located...
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Ceres (dwarf planet) (section Craters)
the brightest in the middle of 80 km (50 mi) Occator Crater. The bright spot in the centre of Occator is named Cerealia Facula, and the group of bright...
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proposed in 2018 with support of ESA. Spacecraft should take samples from Occator Crater, that was studied and photographed by NASA's Dawn. The objectives are:...
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Surface features exaggerated Focus on Occator Crater Flight over dwarf planet Ceres Flyover of Occator Crater Spaceflight portal Features on Ceres Ahuna...
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(K-Mg) salts deposits. Bright spots observed by the Dawn Spacecraft in Occator Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres are most consistent with reflected light from...
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within several major impact basins, most prominently in the center of Occator Crater. These bright spots are composed primarily of various salts, and are...
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List of geological features on Ceres (redirect from Asari (crater))
"Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Nunghui on Ceres". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. 25 August 2017. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Occator on Ceres"...
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Geology of Ceres (section Craters)
spacecraft in 2015. The brightest spot is located in the middle of Occator crater, and is called "bright spot 5". There are 130 bright areas that have...
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1,624 craters (31.2%) Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%) Venerian: 900 craters (17.3%) Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%) Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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thought that water ice can be found on other locations on Ceres and that Occator crater may be a more desirable scientific target. If funded and launched, it...
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based on analysis of data from the Dawn mission. The "bright spots" in Occator crater are the result of salty water rising to the surface from below. Scientists...
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Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Landing Site: A Crater That Contained a Lake - The rover will search the Jezero Crater and delta for the chemical building blocks...
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of the crater Occator on dwarf planet Ceres. Because of the position of the Sun at the time the image was taken, the walls of the crater may appear to...
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safe to eat. 29 June – NASA scientists report that the bright spot in Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres may be mostly sodium carbonate (Na 2CO 3)...
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"Introduction to the special issue: The formation and evolution of Ceres' Occator crater". Icarus. 320: 1–6. Bibcode:2019Icar..320....1S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus...
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Renchu; Li, Chunlai; Ouyang, Ziyuan (22 December 2020). "Lunar impact crater identification and age estimation with Chang'E data by deep and transfer...
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Maritime Buoyage System Region A of the Blu-ray disc storage system Occator Crater on Ceres, known as "Region A" from ground-based images from the Keck...
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Ceres, including those in Ceres' largest bright spot region located in Occator crater, may be related to a type of salt, particularly a form of brine containing...
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; Sykes, Mark V. (2019-03-01). "A Possible Brine Reservoir Beneath Occator Crater: Thermal and Compositional Evolution and Formation of the Cerealia Dome...
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mountain on the dwarf planet and asteroid Ceres. It protrudes above the cratered terrain, is not an impact feature, and is the only mountain of its kind...
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90 craters (24.9%) Eros: 37 craters (10.2%) Gaspra: 31 craters (8.6%) Ida: 21 craters (5.8%) Itokawa: 10 craters (2.8%) Lutetia: 19 craters (5...
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marked by a number of bright spots associated with the impact of the crater Occator. She and collaborators found the bright spots were due to a variety...
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