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Shortly after entering its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), the NASA Dawn spacecraft began sending back a large number of highly-detailed images of how the largest asteroid in our solar system looks like. The views were snapped using the framing cameras on the spacecraft.
For experts studying the early days of th... |
22 December 2011
02:42 GMT |
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According to officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Dawn spacecraft has finally entered its fourth and final orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. Its current path is called the low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO).
This orbit takes it at an average altitude of about 130 mi... |
13 December 2011
02:34 GMT |
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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch later this month. Already stowed aboard is another CERES instrument, built by the Northrop Grumman Corporation.CERES, which stands for Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy ... |
19 October 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Eager to make the most of Dawn mission to the large asteroid Vesta, mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are putting the spacecraft through its paces. Over the past few weeks, the probe has snapped a large numbers of photos depicting the space rock.
The reason w... |
16 September 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Experts managing the NASA Dawn mission announce that the spacecraft was recently able to snap the first images of the asteroid’s South Pole. This space rock is the largest in our solar system to be classified as an asteroid. Dawn is the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the Inner Asteroid Belt... |
25 July 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, confirmed that the Dawn spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, on Saturday, July 16. The maneuver took place 117 million miles away from Earth. This achievement marks the first time that a spacecr... |
18 July 2011
03:04 GMT |
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NASA mission controllers are excited about the fact that the Dawn spacecraft is finally about to enter orbit around the large asteroid Vesta today, July 15. The maneuver is expected to take place at around 10 pm PDT (01:00 am EDT, 0600 GMT Saturday, July 16).After the spacecraft is captured in orbit around the astero... |
15 July 2011
04:49 GMT |
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One of the most debated mysteries surrounding the large asteroid/protoplanet Vesta is whether the celestial body has a moon or not. As Dawn gets ready to enter orbit around the space rock, the issue is about to be resolved, scientists on both sides of the fence believe. There are many things that experts hope the NAS... |
11 July 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are now struggling to discover the source of a glitch that lead to the Dawn spacecraft experiencing a temporary loss of thrust on June 27.The orbiter is currently heading for a July 16 rendezvous with Vesta, the largest asteroid/protoplanet in our entire so... |
8 July 2011
08:53 GMT |
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As the NASA Dawn spacecraft is heading for a July 2011 rendezvous with Vesta, the largest asteroid in the solar system, the cameras on the probe have put together a short clip of the approaching space rock.The new data will help mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California,... |
13 June 2011
11:04 GMT |
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The Dawn space probe is scheduled to soon enter orbit around the largest asteroid in the solar system, Vesta. The massive space object is already within reach, and instruments aboard the probe can already see it as a very distant object. At this point, the massive asteroid is located about 143 million miles from Eart... |
10 June 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency say that the Dawn mission has achieved a remarkable milestone recently, when it managed to use its onboard cameras for navigation for the first time.
The robotic probe is heading towards the asteroid Vesta, which many astronomers believe could be a protoplanet that was not g... |
4 May 2011
01:47 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that the Dawn space probe has been reawaken again, after six months of hibernation. The reason for this is that the spacecraft is approaching its first target, Vesta, the largest known asteroid in the solar system.The explorer ... |
22 March 2011
08:43 GMT |
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The American space agency currently has numerous missions spread out across the solar system, but one of them stands out through its ambitions and complexity. The Dawn spacecraft is currently en route to the dwarf planet Ceres, and then onwards to the large asteroid Vesta. Its trajectory called for impressively-compl... |
8 June 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that the Dawn spacecraft is currently doing alright, with all mission parameters at their optimal values. The probe, which is currently on its way to the dwarf planet Ceres, and the gigantic asteroid Vesta – both in the Inner Asteroid Belt beyond the orbit of Mars – is on time a... |
6 May 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Today, November 14, the NASA Dawn spacecraft entered the inner asteroid belt of our solar system for the last time. The probe is scheduled to visit the dwarf planet Ceres, and also the large asteroid Vesta, and to collect scientific readings on as many of the objects' properties as possible. The asteroid belt li... |
14 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Experts have always thought that lower atmospheric temperatures help keep glaciers frozen in ice sheets, or on mountaintops, but new measurements from a NASA satellite show that ice spreads play a crucial role in keeping temperatures low. Greenland is especially important in this scheme, as its ices reflect back a la... |
29 October 2009
05:50 GMT |
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The recently discovered 2 Pallas is an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter, and previous investigations have determined that it is a bit too impressive in size to be a simple rock. Indeed, the first high-resolution images to come to astronomers seem to demonstrate that the celestial body is a protoplanet, as sp... |
13 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) observation system is one of NASA's ongoing projects that is related to understanding the role of clouds in the atmosphere and the energy cycle in a global climate change. The satellite is part of the agency's Earth Observing System (EOS), alongs... |
4 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Located on an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, the Ceres dwarf planet is about 950 kilometers in diameter, and totals about 32 percent of the mass present in the inner asteroid belt. Astronomers believe that its surface is covered in water ice and various hydrated minerals, and this knowledge has recently sparked an i... |
17 April 2009
03:41 GMT |
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At the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life conference, which took place in Florence, Italy, an astronomer proposed a somewhat unusual location of where life might have originated from. University of Giessen scientist Joop Houtkooper told colleagues and attendants that life on Earth might have re... |
5 March 2009
09:25 GMT |
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On Tuesday, February 17th, NASA's spacecraft Dawn, which is currently heading for the asteroid belt with the aim of studying the Vesta asteroid and the Ceres dwarf planet, passed only 549 kilometers (341 miles) away from the Red Planet, thus successfully completing its Mars-assist stage. This maneuver, which req... |
28 February 2009
03:28 GMT |
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The Dawn spacecraft, a NASA mission to the main asteroid belt, recently shut down its ion engines, according to the schedule, NASA officials announced. The three top notch propulsion systems may be switched on again in January in order to adjust the craft's orbit as it will near Mars, its first target during the... |
22 November 2008
18:31 GMT |
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