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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 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 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.
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Nasa Says Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Could Be Active Ice
The fact that something is visible when near the edge of Ceres suggests that the feature must rise relatively high above the surface.
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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's Dawn Spacecraft Nears Encounter With Dwarf Planet Ceres
"Dawn is about to make history. Our team is ready and eager to find out what Ceres has in store for us."
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'Bright Spot' on Dwarf Planet Has Dimmer Companion
Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as a new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveals that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.
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Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Captures New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres
The latest images which have a resolution of 7.8km per pixel represent the sharpest views of Ceres to date.
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NASA Captures Sharper Images of Dwarf Planet 'Ceres'
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, on way to explore the dwarf planet called Ceres, has captured craters and mysterious bright spots on it.
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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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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 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.
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Nasa Says Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Could Be Active Ice
The fact that something is visible when near the edge of Ceres suggests that the feature must rise relatively high above the surface.
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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's Dawn Spacecraft Nears Encounter With Dwarf Planet Ceres
"Dawn is about to make history. Our team is ready and eager to find out what Ceres has in store for us."
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'Bright Spot' on Dwarf Planet Has Dimmer Companion
Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as a new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveals that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.
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Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Captures New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres
The latest images which have a resolution of 7.8km per pixel represent the sharpest views of Ceres to date.
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NASA Captures Sharper Images of Dwarf Planet 'Ceres'
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, on way to explore the dwarf planet called Ceres, has captured craters and mysterious bright spots on it.
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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.
