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Dawn near Vesta -Artwork

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

e-son35-00005

Date

2017-01-09

Artist's concept of the Dawn spacecraft with asteroid Vesta.
Dawn, part of NASA's Discovery Program of competitively selected missions, was launched in 2007 to orbit the large asteroid Vesta (2011-2012) and the dwarf planet Ceres (2015).