Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres

On the Way to Ceres



NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft.










from News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-443&rn=news.xml&rst=4425

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