Imaging Icy Worlds: Dawn, Cassini and New Horizons Promise a Hot Summer
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute 2015 is shaping up as a banner year for imaging icy worlds. The ion powered Dawn probe arrived at the Dwarf planet Ceres in the Main Asteroid...
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Image Credit NASA/JPL While much of the space science community is anxiously awaiting the July 14th flyby of the New Horizons probe at the system headlined by former planet Pluto, a much more...
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At Ceres, NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Spirals Closer for a Summer Finale
Topographic map of Ceres. Purple is low, red is high. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA As July draws to a close and August begins, the cycle of the seasons can seem to be advancing...
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Dawn Images “Lonely Mountain” From New Orbit at Ceres
New Image of Ceres’ “Lonely Mountain”NASA (Full image here) NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has arrived at its new mapping orbit, and is beginning to send back spectacular images of the dwarf planet’s surface...
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Enter The Expanse: Actual Sci-Fi on SyFy
Repairing The KnightCredit: SyFY It doesn’t take place “a long time ago” nor in a galaxy “far, far away,” but if your interests run towards what a future in space might look like in a universe where...
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Dawn Imagery Soaring Over Ceres
Ceres: How About a Closer Look?NASA From NASA: “The movie shows Ceres in enhanced color, which helps to highlight subtle differences in the appearance of surface materials. Scientists believe areas...
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After Exploring Vesta and Ceres, NASA’s Dawn Mission Team Brings Home Well...
Members of the Dawn mission accept the 2015 Robert J. Collier Trophy recognition. From left to right: Joseph Makowski of Orbital ATK, Keyur Patel of JPL, Robert Mase of JPL, Marc Rayman of JPL and...
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ESO’s HARPS Captures Unexpected Changes in Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots
Unexpected Changes Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA A bit if interesting news regarding Ceres that comes not from the Dawn spacecraft, but rather from the ground based observation from the...
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Study: Ceres Likely Harbors Water Ice in Polar Craters
Blue areas represent zones of permanent shadowCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA A paper published in Geophysical Research Letters concludes that in addition to whatever ice reserves the dwarf...
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Discovering Ceres: Where Are All the Large Craters?
What’s missing? Big Craters Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA One of the many surprising discoveries made by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in orbit over Ceres is that the dwarf planet has fewer large...
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