Nasa’s Dawn Spacecraft Took This Image of Ceres’ South Polar Region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007, Dawn was nasa’s first truly interplanetary space The mission featured extended stays at two extrastrial bodies: giant asteroid vesta and dwarf planet cairs, bot in the Debris-STRERWN Main Main As Asteroid BELT BETWEEN MARS and Jupiter.
The spacecraft’s name was meant to present a simple view of the Mission’s purpose: To provide information on the dawn of the solar system. The three Principal scientific drivers for the mission was to capture the Earliest Moments in the Origin of the Solar System, Determine The Nature of the Building Blocks from Which The Terrestrial Planets Formed, And Constantry Formation and evolution of two small planets that followed very different evolutionary paths.
Dawn completes the first order exploration of the inner solar system, addressed nasa’s goal of undersrstanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, and complemented investigations of Mracury, Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth, and Mars. Dawn’s Mission Ended on Nov. 1, 2018, after two extended missions.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
