Dawn Arrives In Ceres Orbit

Dawn, JPL / NASA’s space probe, achieved orbit around planet Ceres this Friday, March 6, 2015 as it was programmed. The sapce caft had been sending clearer imagery of the [dwarf] planet Ceres since early this year. The probe started to slow down its speed to position itself around the orbit of Ceres.

The best picture of Ceres had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope years before Dawn reached the [dwarf] planet’s vicinity.

Ceres Dawn

Ceres | Hubble Space Telescope – NASA

 Gallery Updated April 30, 2015

Ceres Dawn

Ceres bright spots 02-19-2015 | Dawn – NASA/JPL

Today Dawn is in orbit around the [dwarf] planet Ceres. The follwing image was released last March 01, 2015 by NASA. As the probe orbits Ceres, the lead team hopes to obtain more data and better resolution images that helps them explain what the bright spots on the planet are.

Ceres March 01, 2015 | – NASA/JPL

Images: NASA / JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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