Dawn mission News
During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015.
On April 29, Dawn successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface.
The organics discovery was made by the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard the Dawn spacecraft in and around a northern-hemisphere crater called Ernutet.
Newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet.
NASA has released a new image of the dwarft planet Ceres with bright material.
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