Catching Up with Dawn at Ceres

The Dawn spacecraft has reached its final orbital altitude, closing to within 385 kilometers of the asteroid (and yes, I really should start calling Ceres a ‘dwarf planet’ consistently — working on it). We have no observations from this distance yet, but that process begins within days, and should give us images with a resolution […]

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