Endless space has always attracted people with its vastness and aroused great interest, both among recognized researchers and enthusiasts in this area. The existence of other, alien civilizations especially attracted their attention. Therefore, they have repeatedly tried to prove the existence of aliens and contact them. This is how specialists in this area of knowledge appeared - ufologists.
They never cease to amaze the public with their sensational discoveries. Now their attention is riveted by the dwarf planet Ceres, located in the region of the asteroid belt between our "red neighbor" Mars and the giant Jupiter. It turns out that recently ufologists were able to detect UFO debris in one of the craters, which is located on its surface. They came to the conclusion that an extraterrestrial apparatus made a funnel on this planet, which became a crater. What did the Dawn probe take off on Ceres? Is there really extraterrestrial life on the dwarf planet?
"Who" is Ceres?
Ceres is the closest to our luminary, the Sun, and the smallest among the known dwarf planets in its system. Scientists have long assumed that there must be some kind of planet in the region of the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and they were not mistaken. As a result, the Italian Giuseppe Piazzi from the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in January 1801 discovered in a telescope an unknown dwarf, which was Ceres.
Over the entire period that people know about the heroine of our article, her status has changed many times. At first, astronomers considered Ceres to be a full-fledged planet, later - an asteroid. In 2006, the IAU General Assembly revised the status of some space bodies. As a result, she stripped Pluto of the title of planet, and attributed Ceres to dwarf planets.
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Ceres is the most massive space body in the asteroid belt. With a diameter of about 950 kilometers, it is larger than many large satellites of the giant planets. Ceres is spherical, unlike most small bodies, whose roundness is slightly distorted due to their gravity. In addition, by 20 - 30 percent it consists of water ice that covers its vastness. Its surface includes hydrated substances, siderite, dolomite and clay minerals. Its apparent brightness from the perspective of an earthly observatory is 6.7 - 9.3 magnitude.
There is a tendency among astronomers to name space objects after ancient deities. Therefore, this dwarf planet was named Ceres (as the ancient Roman goddess of fertility). In Greece, the planet is called according to their cultural tradition - Demeter. The Dawn apparatus, which studies bodies in the asteroid belt, in particular, Vesta and Ceres, was launched in 2007 by the efforts of the aerospace organization NASA. On March 6, 2015, he entered the orbit of Ceres and to this day continues to send images to Earth from its surface.
Where did the alien ship wreckage come from on Ceres?
Examining the bottom of a crater called Khulani, ufologists saw a chain of unknown hills at its bottom. However, the crater itself was formed not very long ago, therefore these formations may not be natural, but fragments of a UFO, which were left on Ceres by representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations.
The researchers do not know the reasons why the apparatus crashed on the surface of the dwarf. These can be technical problems, say, a breakdown of the apparatus. But he left a huge footprint on the planet, that is, its surface was dug up. The photographs transmitted by the aforementioned probe confirmed the assumptions that craters appeared from nowhere on the planet's surface.
Despite the ideas of ufologists, recognized scientists were skeptical about the "discovery". They expressed their version of the formation of craters on the surface of Ceres. According to the first version, liquid evaporation took place on the dwarf. Since there is a significant amount of water on it, even more than on Earth, only in a solid state (Ceres is "wrapped" in a layer of ice), this means that, due to the activity of the Sun, ice blocks could melt and where there was a surface earlier, they formed craters.
In addition, the surface of Ceres is covered with various depressions and irregularities, which may have a completely natural, that is, cosmic, origin. The fact is that meteorites are frequent guests on the dwarf planet, which could "tear" its surface. As a result, the alien hypothesis of ufologists is again reduced to nothing.
Spots on Ceres
Previously, scientists saw unusual spots on the surface of the dwarf. According to experts, they are a consequence of the activity of a hydrothermal nature, passing under the surface, deep in the bowels of the planet. These white spots appear as a result of a chemical reaction between several elements as traces of processes. These relationships occur cyclically, making Ceres the most active dwarf planet in the solar system.
Researchers from the Rome National Institute of Astrophysics believe that the reactions in the bowels of the planet have not yet reached their peak, therefore, the formation of more white spots on the surface of the dwarf can be expected. Scientists believe that these formations have nothing to do with the presence of moisture on the planet.
True, there was one strange spot in the pictures from the probe, which scientists dubbed a pyramid. This ice structure is many times larger than the terrestrial pyramid of Cheops, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Its width is 18 thousand, and its height is 6 300 meters. Experts are still arguing about the nature of this formation, considering a variety of theories, including alien ones.
Apparently, the queen of the asteroid belt, as Ceres is also called, conceals many more mysteries that are in no hurry to reveal to people. Since it is one of the dwarf planets closest to Earth, researchers have plans to land on it as part of a mission to Mars, and if possible, colonize it. True, the implementation of such large-scale plans is not yet possible, because it depends on progress in the field of astronautics.
Natalie Lee