NASA’s Dawn Finds Organics At Ceres

Mark Carreau February 16, 2017

HOUSTON—Ceres, the largest of the Solar System’s main belt asteroids, shows evidence of surface organics, the carbon-based building blocks for life, according to new findings from NASA’s Dawn mission spacecraft. Launched in 2007, Dawn has been in polar orbit around Ceres since March 2015, lowering...

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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