Ceres

Ceres is an alternate location available for skirmishes through The Ceres Initiative DLC. It will also appear 25% of the time for ranked play and daily challenges. You are not required to own the DLC to play ranked games on Ceres, but must own it to participate in lobby games or single-player skirmishes.

=Differences=

Removed Buildings
Wind Turbine

Geothermal Plant

Removed Patents
Superconductor

Carbon Scrubbing

Added Resources
Uranium

Added Buildings
Nuclear Plant

Added Patents
Transparent Aluminum

Liquid Batteries

Terrain
The types of terrain available have changed, as well as some of the distribution propensities for existing terrain types. New terrain features have been added as well.

Caves
Some tiles are now capable of Slant Drilling a resource tile adjacent to them by default, without researching the patent.

Salts
Salts provide a 50% bonus to Greenhouse Farms and Glass Kilns.

Ice
Only Water Ice occurs on Ceres and it may exist anywhere on a map, rather than being restricted to the northern section.

Time
Sols on Ceres only last nine hours, compared to the 24 hours and 40 minute Sols on Mars.

Auctions
Auctions occur every other Sol, at 04:00, with the first one occuring on Sol 5.

Debt Interest
Debt interest is still accrued every Sol at 0:00, but because Sols change roughly three times as often, interest rates have been divided by three across the board (though compounding can mean that interest builds up quicker on Ceres).

Day/Night
Daylight hours: 02:00 to 07:00 or 5hrs This means that Solar Panels and Solar Condensers are only operational for about 56% of the time instead of ~65% of the time on Mars or Io.

Random Events
Marsquakes and Dust Storms do not occur on Ceres.

Diminishing Resources
Resource deposits will now diminish when 500 units of that resource is extracted from them, including from Slant Drilling. Each time a resource diminishes it will be reduced by one level (i.e. from High to Medium), but will never diminish below Low.