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Relative locations of Earth, Sun, and Dawn (December 2014)

Relative locations of Earth, Sun, and Dawn (December 2014)
Relative locations of Earth, Sun, and Dawn (December 2014) Illustration of the relative locations (but not sizes) of Earth, the sun, and Dawn in early December 2014. (Earth and the sun are at that location every December.) The images are superimposed on the trajectory for the entire mission, showing the positions of Earth, Mars, Vesta, and Ceres at milestones during Dawn’s voyage. NASA / JPL-Caltech