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Dawn Enters Science Orbit


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Dawn Enters Science Orbit

Dawn Mission Status Report

NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered into its first science orbit on Thursday, April 23, as scheduled. Following a delay in communicating a command sequence, the spacecraft briefly entered into safe mode and awaited further instructions, which were sent by mission controllers. As of early Friday, April 24, the spacecraft returned to normal operating mode and the mission team continues to prepare for science data collection.

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It's said that when Dawn finishes its mission, they'll park it in orbit of Ceres permanently. A good thing they won't have to worry about feeding coins to De meter.

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The first of Dawn's image from 8400 kilometers, with 1.3 km per pixel resolution was released today. It was taken on the 24th, indicating the usual delay of five days, for arranging transmission back to Earth, and processing. Link to fairly large version of the image, below:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA19319_modest.jpg

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Actually that's 8400 miles from Ceres, which is about 13,500 kilometers.

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