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11-Year-Old Mission Ends As NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Goes Silent
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending an 11-year-old historic mission to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, the US space agency said.
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Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Can Be Active Ice: NASA
A pair of bright spots that glimmer inside an impact crater on the asteroid Ceres could be some kind of icy plume, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed.
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Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Reaches Dwarf Planet Ceres for 16-Month Study
The spacecraft made a 14-month tour of the asteroid Vesta before steering itself toward Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Nasa Probe Indicates Asteroid Vesta Once Had Flowing Water: Study
"These results, and many others from the Dawn mission, show that Vesta is home to many processes that were previously thought to be exclusive to planets."
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1.7 billion miles from earth, NASA spacecraft orbits giant asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion-mile (2.7 billion kilometer) journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said on Monday.
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11-Year-Old Mission Ends As NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Goes Silent
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending an 11-year-old historic mission to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, the US space agency said.
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Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Can Be Active Ice: NASA
A pair of bright spots that glimmer inside an impact crater on the asteroid Ceres could be some kind of icy plume, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed.
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Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Reaches Dwarf Planet Ceres for 16-Month Study
The spacecraft made a 14-month tour of the asteroid Vesta before steering itself toward Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Nasa Probe Indicates Asteroid Vesta Once Had Flowing Water: Study
"These results, and many others from the Dawn mission, show that Vesta is home to many processes that were previously thought to be exclusive to planets."
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1.7 billion miles from earth, NASA spacecraft orbits giant asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion-mile (2.7 billion kilometer) journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said on Monday.
