Tag: Planetary Science

  • Dawn’s camera resolves fuzzy features on Ceres

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    Ceres is seen by Dawn’s framing camera at a range of 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers). Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is tantalizing scientists with new imagery of Ceres, a dwarf planet orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, as the probe closes in on the icy world for 16 months of up-close observations. The…

  • Dawn begins final approach to dwarf planet Ceres

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    Artist’s concept of the Dawn spacecraft firing its ion propulsion system on approach to Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has begun its final approach to the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, for an in-depth survey of the uncharted world. The solar-powered space probe is scheduled to arrive at Ceres…

  • NASA spacecraft to get bonus time studying Mercury

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    A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Running low on fuel after completing the first global survey…