As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission to explore two of the largest worlds in the asteroid belt and it has succeeded well beyond expectations, starting a new era in the exploration of the Solar System’s small worlds.
Moving out into the asteroid belt and farther still to the gas giants, NASA’s Dawn,…
Eight and a half years after its launch from Florida, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft celebrated its…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has completed its historic arrival at the dwarf planet Ceres. With the…
It was an interesting year for NASA as the 2011 calendar brought about the retirement…
