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
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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
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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
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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
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