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Dawn enters orbit around Ceres

Submit on Friday, March 6th, 2015 22:57

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 61,000 kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at about 1239 UTC on 6 March..

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