Porosity-filling Metamorphic Brines Explain Ceres’s Low Mantle Density
Mohit Melwani Daswani and Julie C. Castillo-Rogez 2022 Planet. Sci. J. 3 21
Thermodynamic modeling of the evolution of Ceres’s mantle is able to reproduce the densities inferred from Dawn observations and may also provide an explanation for the salty deposits seen on the dwarf planet’s crust.