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Dawn Sees Ceres From Lowest Orbit Ever

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now closer to Ceres than ever before. Ceres is the largest known asteroid and the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. After Dawn entered orbit around Ceres in March ...
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NASA spacecraft goes into orbit around Ceres

After a 7-1/2 year journey through the solar system, NASA's Dawn spacecraft settled into orbit Friday around the mini-planet Ceres that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mission ...
CBS News

Dawn Spacecraft Achieves Orbit Around Dwarf Planet Ceres

PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed spacecraft made history Friday as the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The ion-powered Dawn spacecraft was captured by ...
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Dawn to Peer at Ceres From Just 30 Miles Up

Dawn's going down. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting Ceres since March 2015, will maneuver to its final and lowest orbit ever to take incredibly detailed photos and compositional measurements of ...
SpaceNews

Dawn Moves Into A Higher Orbit Above Ceres

The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this ...
KUTV

Spacecraft becomes first to orbit mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

(CNN) NASA's tractor-trailer-sized Dawn spacecraft is now in orbit around Ceres, becoming the first probe to orbit a dwarf planet.The spacecraft was about 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres ...
ExtremeTech

NASA spacecraft nears orbit with Ceres, mysterious bright spots

Ceres (pronounced "series") is in the asteroid belt -- but it's not just an asteroid. Technically, Ceres is also a dwarf planet (the only one inside the orbit of Pluto), making it an improbable body ...
SpaceNews

Dawn Prepares To Raise Its Orbit Around Ceres

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Scientists Propose Permanent Human Habitat Built Orbiting Ceres

A group of Finnish researchers are proposing a permanent human habitat in the orbit of Ceres, a massive asteroid and dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. According to the team, ...
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Humans Could Soon Live in a Giant Space Station Orbiting Ceres

Mankind evolved to live, survive, and thrive on Earth, under the specific natural conditions of this planet. Finding a new home, whether because we need to or want to explore the cosmos, won’t be easy ...
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft goes into orbit around Ceres

After a 7-1/2 year journey through the solar system, NASA's Dawn spacecraft settled into orbit Friday around the mini-planet Ceres that lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mission ...