Dawn Spacecraft Sends Back Initial Image
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be using 12-in. ion thrusters to ease NASA's Dawn spacecraft into orbit around Vesta, a protoplanet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that may have one of the oldest planetary surfaces in the Solar System. The probe has switched from...
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