{"id":201520,"date":"2024-12-13T07:17:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/dwarf-planet-ceres-could-be-rich-in-organics-defunct-spacecraft-data-reveals"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:17:42","slug":"dwarf-planet-ceres-could-be-rich-in-organics-defunct-spacecraft-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/dwarf-planet-ceres-could-be-rich-in-organics-defunct-spacecraft-data-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf planet Ceres could be rich in organics, defunct spacecraft data reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dwarf-planet-ceres-could-be-rich-in-organics-defunct-spacecraft-data-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These findings dispute the former theory, suggesting the organic materials come from within the dwarf planet or are \u201cendogenous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe significance of this discovery lies in the fact that, if these are endogenous materials, it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+processes\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+processes\/\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">biological processes<\/a>,\u201d team leader and Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Andaluc\u00eda researcher Juan Luis Rizos <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-12-evidence-material-ceres-solar-rich.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-12-evidence-material-ceres-solar-rich.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To investigate the organic compounds found on Ceres, the team used a new approach that examined the dwarf planet\u2019s surface and the distribution of organic matter at the highest possible resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These findings dispute the former theory, suggesting the organic materials come from within the dwarf planet or are \u201cendogenous.\u201d \u201cThe significance of this discovery lies in the fact that, if these are endogenous materials, it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support biological processes,\u201d team leader and Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}