Dawn over Ceres

(Before It's News)

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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Friday (March 6) became the first robotic probe to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was about 38,000 miles from Ceres when it was captured by the small icy body’s gravity. Dawn also has the distinction of being the first mission to orbit two extraterrestrial worlds. From 2011 to 2012, the spacecraft explored the giant asteroid Vesta.

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