Kinetic effect on the freezing of ammonium-sodium-carbonate-chloride brines and implications for the origin of Ceres’ bright spots
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DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.038
Abstract: Abstract Prominent bright spots containing natrite (Na2CO3) and smaller amounts of NH4Cl or NH4HCO3 observed in Ceres' Occator crater have been proposed to originate from an internal reservoir, where subsurface brines freeze upon reaching the… read more here.
Keywords: sodium carbonate; bright spots; ammonium; chloride ... See more keywords