Dawn Mission’s End To Leave Door Open For Return

HOUSTON—Dawn, NASA’s 11-year, first-ever mission to orbit two relics from the formation of the Solar System’s planets in the main asteroid belt, is drawing to a close. But the agency has taken measures to preserve an opportunity to return and land on the most intriguing of the two objects: Ceres, a...

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