NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2012
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) to start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn began its 3-billion-mile (5-bill

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