Dawn Closes In To Orbit Ceres

Credit: NASA
A solar-powered spacecraft with arrays 65 ft. across is returning images of the largest object in the main asteroid belt with better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope, and will soon be orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres close enough to generate topographical maps of its surface features...

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