The U.S. space agency, NASA says that says it believes it has discovered salty water beneath the surface of the dwarf planet, Ceres, in orbit around the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The space agency's Dawn spacecraft gathered up-close views of the dwarf planet – smaller than the earth's moon – before ending its mission in October 2018. At one point, Dawn dipped down to just 35 kilometers above Ceres's surface.
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Those up-close views revealed "mysterious bright regions", which scientists later concluded to be deposits of sodium carbonate from liquid that likely filtered up to the surface and evaporated, leaving behind a reflective salty crust.