Gallery: Water Plumes Discovered on the Solar System's Largest Asteroid

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    Illustrations by ESA/ATG medialab
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    An artist's conception of the watery outgassing on Ceres.
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    Illustrations by IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris / CNRS / Y.Gominet, B. Carry
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    A much more fanciful illustration of Ceres' water plumes.
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    Photos by NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)
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    Hubble photo of Ceres.
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA
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    NASA's Dawn spacecraft made this mosaic of Vesta, the asteroid belt's second largest object.
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
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    Outgassing jets from comet Hartley 2.
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    Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLAMPS/DLR/IDA
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    Dawn produced this artificially colored photo of Vesta's crater Antonia, showing different rock types.
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