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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 […] Image from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing deposits of impact glass (green) in Alga Crater. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/Univ. of Arizona For the first time, impact glass has been detected on the surface of Mars; the discovery not only provides new information about the […] The cracked icy surface of Europa. Could the ocean below support life? The Europa Clipper mission will try to answer that question. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Ted Stryk An exciting new development in planetary exploration was announced today: NASA has chosen the science instruments which will be included in a new mission to Jupiter’s moon […] Image Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. […] The Dawn spacecraft has left Vesta and is currently on its way to Ceres, which it should reach in 2015. Image Credit: NASA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was launched September 27, 2007, on a unique mission: to explore the two most massive objects in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Propelled by an ion […] |
 Next Launch GPS III - SV05 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 17 Jun 21 at 16:09 GMT 17 Jun 21 at 12:09pm Eastern 
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