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Dawn Spacecraft Begins Extensive Study of Dwarf Planet Ceres from Lowest Orbit

By Paul Scott Anderson, on January 6th, 2016

Artist’s conception of Dawn orbiting Ceres. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Dawn spacecraft just recently entered its lowest and final orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, providing the closest look ever at the puzzling world. Dawn will, of course, be taking thousands more high-resolution photographs, but what else will it be doing during the […]

Ceres Shows Mystifying Faces and Perplexing White Spots to NASA’s Dawn

By Ken Kremer, on February 18th, 2015

Two mystifying faces of Ceres These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) as the dwarf planet rotated. The images have been magnified from their original size. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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