When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this strange and beautiful planetoid.

As the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt, accounting for more than 39 percent of its total mass, Ceres is the only object in the belt that has undergone hydrostatic equilibrium (aka. became round under the influence of its own gravity).

The data Dawn obtained between 2015 and 2018, when the mission ran out of fuel, revealed some very interesting things about this mysterious, icy planetoid.

Nearby Dwarf Planet Could Have a Crust That's 90% Water

Like Jupiter 's moon Europa, and Saturn 's moons Titan and Enceladus, scientists have speculated that Ceres could be an 'Ocean World,' meaning that it could have a liquid wat

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