The Dawn spacecraft will employ ion propulsion to explore two of the asteroid belt’s most intriguing and dissimilar occupants: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system’s earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. Ceres and Vesta reside in the extensive zone between Mars and Jupiter together with many other smaller bodies, called the asteroid belt. Each has followed a very different evolutionary path constrained by the diversity of processes that operated during the first few million years of solar system evolution. Dawn has much to offer the general public. It brings images of varied landscapes on previously unseen worlds to the public including mountains, canyons, craters, lava flows, polar caps and, possibly ancient lakebeds, streambeds and gullies. Students can follow the mission over an entire K-12 experience as the mission is built, cruises to Vesta and Ceres and returns data. The public will be able to participate through the Solar System Ambassadors and through participation on the web.
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Another mission (or waste of tax dollars) to take some nice pictures of a rock?
@fecalbell
What part of evolution has been observed?
cool
That glare coming from the ion propulsion engine looks cool.
Also, I never thought I’d say such a sentence in my life.
@maazy94 theres too many uneducated fools like yourself that make statements that are completly wrong…you dimwit
Jpl is sooo cool.
i like it
Terrible “music”
I hate it!
there is no such thing as god :/
@maazy94 well we can observe it happening, evolution is a fact. Not that anyone would read it anyway, but a youtube comment couldn’t a thorough explanation of everything we’ve learned through science. but it’s depressing to see this degree of ignorance I’m seeing here. I don’t think you even realize that evolution is not the same thing as the theory of evolution. darwin’s theory is dominant but there are and have been other theories.
there is no such thing as evolution
The idea is that each living thing is a little different from its parent(s), some differences help some creatures to survive and reproduce better than others, and when you add up all those small differences over millions of years the result is a big change. So nobody has to figure out how to make a big change all at once.
one thing I know; we didn’t evolve from anything, the organs in are body’s are different from there’s and if it apparenly takes millions of years to evolve that’s to long by the time anything figured out to evolve they’d be dead and dead things don’t evolve.
Did you get the song yet ? if e, then plz do let me know/ Thanks
space…. where humans came from. but we didn’t come AS humans… evolution clearly took it’s course, now to figure what REALITY is, and if dimensions exist out of this reality, crazy existance we live in… and only the living experience life… not the dead or possible created lifes… crazy.
what is the song name because it is so cool :)
energetic fun smart and loves this video
anyone want to chat lh
2015, Ceres. Cant waitttt..
wats the song name
if u get the song name tell me
Requesting entrancing song of this video please artist name or name of track i beg you
the video sucks..boring
i love astronomy
My name is on that spacecraft ;))along with a few thousend others on a DVD
Orbiting ceres would be easy because it is round, not irregular like most other asteroids