Anomalously bright spots are seen on the dark cratered surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. The Dawn spacecraft's detection of sodium carbonates in bright areas is consistent with aqueous activity in an ice-poor and salty regolith.
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Zolotov, M. Salty Ceres. Nature Geosci 9, 476–477 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2756
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