{"id":16712,"date":"2018-09-10T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16712"},"modified":"2018-09-10T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:09:51","slug":"video-the-dawn-misison-to-vesta-and-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16712","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Dawn misison to Vesta and Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn mission<\/a>, the first time a probe has orbited two different celestial bodies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4_Vesta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vesta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceres<\/a>. The mission will end this fall, when the spacecraft runs out of hydrazine, which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth. For more info on the mission, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdawn.jpl.nasa.gov&amp;v=Hth3nKGKTFc&amp;redir_token=1l6FMr3BBnmHmavFm3MOHDBCp_x8MTUzNjY0MjI1NEAxNTM2NTU1ODU0&amp;event=video_description\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDMQ6TgYACITCOvc7M7Ur90CFQdU7QodUU4GKij4HUjXmKmMyvOd7B4\">https:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hth3nKGKTFc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1250098963&amp;asins=1250098963&amp;linkId=06b5268baad8fe2fe8d39baba17fb36c&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overview of NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Dawn mission, the first time a probe has orbited two different celestial bodies: NASA\u2019s Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. The mission will end this fall, when the spacecraft runs out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: The Dawn misison to Vesta and Ceres<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4ly","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9572,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9572","url_meta":{"origin":16712,"position":0},"title":"Dawn probe moves closer to dwarf planet Ceres","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's\u00a0Dawn\u00a0is getting closer to Ceres, the largest asteroid and now classified as a dwarf planet. 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