NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Achieves Orbit Around Ceres

At 5:36 a.m. PST on March 6th, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft became the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at about 4:39 a.m. PST (7:39 a.m. EST) Friday. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]
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