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NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there? Eurostar trains cancelled after WWII bomb ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to ... Their sizes vary significantly, from Vesta—the largest, measuring about 329 miles (530 kilometers) in diameter—to much smaller bodies less ...

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC ... as demonstrated by uranium-lead dating techniques used to determine meteorite ages. Missions like Dawn to Vesta and Ceres (a dwarf planet often classified ...

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Meanwhile, visitors were allowed to touch a fragment of the asteroid Vesta, which is the second largest asteroid ... based on data gathered by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA). In ...

Up in space, NASA has deployed various spacecraft to study asteroids up close. These missions provide valuable data about the asteroid's composition, and structure. One was the Dawn mission to Vesta ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...

After impacting the crust, Vesta would create something both Redditors and NASA scientists like to call a “crust tsunami.” The Earth’s crust would be peeled away from the point of impact ...