Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! The Dawn spacecraft has been exploring the two largest objects in the asteroid belt since 2007, and here’s what we’ve learned so far!
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Sources:
https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa66cd/meta
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6326/719
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/10091306-what-did-dawn-learn-at-vesta.html
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1997/97-191.txt
https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline_trajectory.html
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6326/706.1
https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_11_28_16
https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/pdfs/Dawn_Vesta_Ceres_Lithograph.pdf
Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dawn_Flight_Configuration_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dawn_ignition.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceres-Vesta-Pluto-and-Moon-size-fr.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta_in_natural_color.jpg
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/blog/2014/3/so-close-yet-so-far-away-dawns-trajectory-explained
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta-HST-Color.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rheasilvia_and_older_basin,_Vesta.jpg
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15510
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillbillillieMeteorite.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tatahouine_Diogenite_72g.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howardite_QUE94200.gif
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA20183-Ceres-MapOfBrightSpots-20151210.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA20358-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-HaulaniCrater-CloseupColor-20160419.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/dawn-discovers-evidence-for-organic-material-on-ceres
