Welcome to the Dawn Mission

[SirUlli]

Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. Ceres and Vesta reside in the extensive zone between Mars and Jupiter together with many other smaller bodies, called the asteroid belt. Each has followed a very different evolutionary path constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution.

more Info, Dawn Homepage

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/dawn/index.html

or at NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/main/index.html

and for Info, what is a ION PROPULSION

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/dawn/spacecraft.html

and

http://science.nasa.gov/newhom...ines/prop06apr99_2.htm

Greetings from Germany NRW
Sir Ulli

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx man! 🙂

 

[Spacehead]

Yesterdays APOD featured Ceres & Vesta 🙂


Thanks for the info SirUlli :thumbsup: