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Journey to Ceres

Journey to Ceres
Photojournal: PIA17651
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: December 3, 2013

This graphic shows the planned trek of NASA's Dawn spacecraft from its launch in 2007 through its arrival at the dwarf planet Ceres in early 2015.

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