Crater with a rare filling

Crater with a rare filling
Crater with a rare filling
At the centre of the 90 kilometre-wide impact structure Occator is the largest occurrence of the strange white deposits on Ceres. These are principally carbonates, salts and carbonic acid. The blue false colours also indicate the existence of bright deposits associated with sulphuric salts, popularly known as plaster.
Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.

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