Nasa Launches Spacecraft On Double-Encounter Mission in Asteroid Belt
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › September 27, 2007
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft rocketed away Thursday toward an unprecedented double encounter in the asteroid belt.
Scientists hope the mission sheds light on the early solar system by exploring the two largest bodies in the belt between Mars and Jupiter: an asteroid named Vesta and a dwarf planet the size of Texas named Ceres.See the full content of this document
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Nasa Launches Spacecraft On Double-Encounter Mission in Asteroid Belt
Dawn's mission is the world's first attempt to journey to a celestial body and orbit it, then travel to another and circle it as well. Ion-prop...
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