News | February 20, 2009
Dawn Images the Red Planet
![near-infrared image of Mars taken from the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft](/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBcDltIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--d9be63afb4cf0e01f83b2d0d9be9696a11d73f47/dawn20090220-640-640x350.jpg?disposition=inline)
The Dawn framing camera was built by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany, in partnership with the Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt and Institut fuer Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze. The Dawn mission is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/MPS/DLR/IDA, and the Dawn Flight Team
NASA's Dawn spacecraft imaged Mars during a Tues., Feb. 17 flyby. The flyby effectively changed the spacecraft's velocity as it heads toward future encounters with Ceres and Vesta.