EALING: Dawn, NASA’s first ever spacecraft orbiting dwarf planet Ceres, has sent back pictures of Ceres revealing details of its North Pole. Researchers had to wait for the spaceship to move to the sun lit side of Ceres.Dawn was launched in September 2007. Dawn had started orbiting Ceres on March 6 2015. The pictures were taken on April 10th from a distance of 21,000 miles as the spacecraft moved from the dark side of Ceres into the light.
The last three years, Dawn has been moving towards Ceres with an objective of capturing a 3D image.
“Ceres is the largest rock body between Mars and Jupiter,” said National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Ceres is named after the ancient roman goddess of agriculture and harvest. It was discovered in 1801 by Father Guiseppe Piazzi. In 2006, Ceres was declared a dwarf planet. It has an average diameter of 590 miles about 27 percent that of our moon and comprises almost one third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It is the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System and the only object in the asteroid belt that is unambiguously rounded by its own gravity.
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