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More Dawn Vesta approach images: first color views
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/02/17 11:37 CST
�On June 30, Dawn stopped thrusting for a full Vestian day -- five hours and 20 minutes -- and just watched the asteroid rotate. But unlike the previous observations, they used all of Dawn's�color filters�to acquire the best-ever color photos of the lumpy world.
Dawn images of Vesta! Released!! For everyone!!!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/02/14 10:57 CST
Some time in the last few days, the Dawn team�made public the first preliminary version�of the first release of their data from the Vesta phase of their mission.�
Dawn Journal: How does Dawn know where "down" is?
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2012/01/30 01:23 CST
Dawn Journal: How does Dawn know where "down" is?
The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/17 02:04 CST | 3 comments
The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium
Dawn Journal: The Om of orbit adjustment
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2012/01/09 03:53 CST
The Dawn mission's Project System Engineer Marc Rayman reports that Dawn concluded 2011 more than 40 thousand times nearer to Vesta than it began the year. It is now at its lowest altitude of the mission, conducting a detailed exploration of the protoplanet and continuing to make new discoveries.
Notes on Dawn at Vesta from the 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/08 03:19 CST
A report on the press briefing and talks from the Fall 2011 American Geophyisical Union meeting about the data on Vesta collected so far by Dawn.
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