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Dawn's Arrival at Dwarf Planet (Artist Concept)

Dawn's Arrival at Dwarf Planet (Artist Concept)
Photojournal: PIA18921
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: March 2, 2015

This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres, the most massive body in the asteroid belt. Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet.

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