Ceres is one of the few places in our solar system where scientists would like to search for possible signs of life. Ceres has something a lot of other planets don't: water.
Here on Earth, water is essential for life, so it's possible that with this ingredient and a few other conditions met, life possibly could exist there. If anything does live on Ceres, it's likely to be very small microbes similar to bacteria.
If Ceres does not have living things today, there may be signs it harbored life in the past. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Ceres would be about as big as a poppy seed. From an average distance of million miles million kilometers , Ceres is 2.
One astronomical unit abbreviated as AU , is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 22 minutes to travel from the Sun to Ceres. Ceres takes 1, Earth days, or 4. As Ceres orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 9 hours, making its day length one of the shortest in the solar system.
Ceres' axis of rotation is tilted just 4 degrees with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. That means it spins nearly perfectly upright and doesn't experience seasons like other more tilted planets do. Ceres formed along with the rest of the solar system about 4. Scientists describe Ceres as an "embryonic planet," which means it started to form but didn't quite finish.
Nearby Jupiter's strong gravity prevented it from becoming a fully formed planet. About 4 billion years ago, Ceres settled into its current location among the leftover pieces of planetary formation in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Ceres is more similar to the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars than its asteroid neighbors, but it is much less dense. Ceres probably has a solid core and a mantle made of water ice. In fact, Ceres could be composed of as much as 25 percent water.
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