NASA’s Dawn spacecraft begins science orbits of Vesta
Submit on Monday, August 1st, 2011 22:56
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiralling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins on 11 August, at an altitude of 2,700 kilometers and will provide in-depth analysis of the asteroid.
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