Dawn Achieves Orbit Around Ceres
Credit: Dawn: NASA
NASA’s Dawn asteroid-belt probe has used its solar-electric propulsion system to achieve orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet and the first to achieve orbit around a second celestial body, following its July 2011 rendezvous with the asteroid Vesta. Signals that...
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