NASA’s astronomer believes those spots on Ceres are actually salt

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WASHINGTON: A few days ago, we were telling you about some spectacular features on Ceres, the dwarf planet / largest object in the asteroid belt. NASA’s astronomers were puzzled by some white patches on Ceres’ surface, which they initially presumed to be ice. Now, they believe those patches are actually salt.
he Dawn Spacecraft, launched by NASA back in 2007, began photographing an extended disk of Ceres on December 1, 2014, taking photos of Ceres in 2015. At the European Planetary Science Congress in France, Dawn’s principal investigator Chris Russell told scientists that they now believe the patches are made of salt – it’s just not clear what kind of salt.