Image caption: On June 11, during a procedure to prepare the Dawn spacecraft for spin-balance testing, the back of a solar array panel was slightly damaged by a technician’s tool. The size of the ...
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet revealed blinding bright spots, deep fractures, and strange chemical signatures ...
After a seven and a half year journey through the solar system, NASA’s Dawn space craft safely arrived at the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS ...