NMNH - Bennu, Occator Crater on Ceres, Image by NASA

Occator crater on the icy dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, as observed by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.

The bright spots in the center of this 60-mile (90-kilometer) diameter crater are composed of sodium carbonate, suggesting that minerals formed in the earliest history of the solar system on Bennu’s parent asteroid are also forming today on the icy world, Ceres.