Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 25, 2015 #1 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Dawn Enters Science Orbit Dawn Mission Status ReportNASA'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. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted April 26, 2015 #2 Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited April 26, 2015 by bison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted April 29, 2015 #3 Share Posted April 29, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted April 30, 2015 #4 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Actually that's 8400 miles from Ceres, which is about 13,500 kilometers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted April 30, 2015 #5 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Another new image of Ceres' South polar region from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA19321_modest.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted May 1, 2015 #6 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Yet another new image of Ceres, at the best resolution yet. Dawn is in a 15 day orbit, so its point of view shifts about 24 degrees per day. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA19322_modest.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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