Dawn at Ceres Press Kit

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on a mission to study the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Vesta and Ceres. Studying these worlds allows scientists to do historical research in space, opening a window into the earliest chapter in the history of our solar system. At each target, Dawn acquires color photographs, maps the elemental and mineralogical composition, measures the gravity field and searches for moons.​