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  • Dusk for Dawn, NASA’s Mission to the Asteroid Belt

    Dusk for Dawn, NASA’s Mission to the Asteroid Belt

    The mission has ended for NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, but the science lives on. Dawn was an intrepid explorer of the asteroid belt and the first mission to orbit two worlds beyond Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/2zl1Y5T. For more info on the mission, visit https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

  • NASA’s Dawn Defines Vesta’s Role in Solar System History

    NASA’s Dawn Defines Vesta’s Role in Solar System History

    During a NASA Television Science briefing, scientists discussed the findings of the first global analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The Dawn mission has confirmed Vesta’s status as a special fossil of the early solar system and revealed a more varied, diverse world than originally thought. Dawn has shown Vesta is the only known intact, layered planetary building block with an iron core surviving from the earliest days of the solar system. It therefore more closely resembles a small planet or Earth’s moon, not another asteroid.