Dawn Picks Up Energy With a Mars Flyby
NASA’s Dawn asteroid probe is moving away from the Sun after flying within 341 mi. of the surface of Mars Feb. 17 for a gravity assist. The maneuver set up the 2,500-lb. spacecraft for another 27 months of ion thrusting before it reaches its first target—the asteroid Vesta—in August 2011. Launched...
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