Dawn Spacecraft

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  NASA's Dawn Mission Unveils Insights into Vesta’s Mysterious Gullies Using Lab Simulations

  NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta revealed mysterious gullies on its surface. New lab experiments, simulating Vesta's harsh vacuum conditions, suggest that liquid water, possibly briny, could have flowed briefly and carved these channels. These findings challenge existing theories about liquid stability on airless bodies and provide insig...

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  SpaceX Polaris Dawn Becomes First Spacecraft Mission to Let Non-Professional Crew Perform a Spacewalk

  Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, have achieved the first private spacewalk, stepping out of the SpaceX Dragon capsule 435 miles above Earth. This historic event demonstrates the potential for private companies in space exploration, using innovative EVA suits and a unique approach without an airlock. T...

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  SpaceX Polaris Dawn Mission Launching on August 27 with Plans for First-Ever Private Spacewalk

  SpaceX is set to make history once again with its Polaris Dawn mission, scheduled for launch on August 27. This mission marks a significant milestone in space exploration, as it will not only take the Crew Dragon spacecraft to its highest orbit yet—approximately 435 miles (700 kilometers) above Earth—but also feature the first-ever private spac...

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  Ceres Dwarf Planet Is an ‘Ocean World’ With Salty Water Underground, NASA Data Suggest

  Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is an "ocean world" with a big reservoir of salty water under its frigid surface, scientists said in findings based on data obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.

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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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  NASA's Dawn Asteroid Mission Ends as Fuel Runs Out

  Scientists have known for about a month that Dawn was essentially out of hydrazine, the fuel that kept the spacecraft's antennae oriented toward Earth.

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  NASA's Cassini Probe Captures Dawn on Saturn in Stunning New Image

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has beamed back a stunning image that shows Saturn with its icy rings stretched across the foreground.

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  NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Hit by Glitch on Extended Mission

  The malfunction will not significantly impact the rest of Dawn's extended mission, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday.

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  NASA Set To Launch Near-Earth Asteroid Mission

  US space agency NASA is poised on Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn of the solar system.

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  The Mystery Of The Dwarf Planet Ceres

  The dwarf planet Ceres - which must have been hit by numerous large asteroids during its 4.5 billion-year lifetime - has a mysteriously low number of large craters, scientists using data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have found.

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  Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Spots Mountain on Dwarf Planet Ceres

  This mountain appeared as a small, bright-sided bump on the surface from a distance of 46,000km.

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  Nasa's Dawn Probe Reveals Finer Details of Crater on Ceres

  The crater has bright material exposed on its rim which could be salts and its flat floor likely formed from impact melt and debris.

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  NASA Probe Reveals Dwarf Planet Ceres in Intriguing Details

  NASA's Dawn spacecraft has shown the brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres that are gleaming with mystery.

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  NASA Probe Sends Stunning Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres

  NASA's Dawn spacecraft has delivered the closest-yet views of the dwarf planet called Ceres that show the small world's features in unprecedented detail.

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  Nasa's Dawn Probe Takes More Photos of Mysterious Bright Spots on Ceres

  Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet and the first to orbit two distinct targets in our solar system.