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  2. File:Video-FlightOverDwarfPlanetCeres-20160129.WebM - Wikipedia

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    Dawn was the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first mission outside the Earth-moon system to orbit two distinct solar system targets. After orbiting Vesta for 14 months in 2011 and 2012, it arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015. Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

  3. File:CeresDwarfPlanet-OccatorCrater-DawnFlyover-20161215.webm

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    Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft.

  4. File:Video-FlyOver-DwarfPlanet-Ceres--Dawn-20150608.ogv

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    A new video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. The images come from Dawn's first mapping orbit at Ceres, at an altitude of 8,400 mile (13,600 kilometers), as well as navigational images taken from 3,200 miles (5,100 ...

  5. Watch NASA's orbiter approach the dwarf planet Ceres at ... - AOL

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    Eventually, it'll drop as low as 1,480km (950 miles) to capture high resolution mapping data and 3D images of Ceres. Once the mission is over it'll remain the asteroid's orbiting buddy forever.

  6. NASA spacecraft sends new images of Ceres' mysterious ... - AOL

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    Months ago, NASA's Dawn spacecraft began capturing images of Ceres, and among the many intriguing surface features it has discovered is a rather mysterious conical mountain. The agency announced ...

  7. NASA's Dawn spacecraft spots two bright points on Ceres - AOL

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    The Dawn spacecraft has spotted not one, but two bright points on the minor planet Ceres. Newly enhanced images from the probe show two shining spots on the surface. It's not clear exactly what ...

  8. Dawn (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. [1] In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program — Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey ...

  9. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft just ran out of fuel and now it’s dead

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    By the time the spacecraft ran out of fuel it had around 4.3 billion miles under its belt. The spacecraft itself may indeed be dead, but Dawn's contribution to science is far from over.