Dawn spacecraft captures best-ever view of dwarf planet
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft that soon will become the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet.