Nasa spacecraft, the first asteroid probe

Now 16 / 7, the spacecraft Dawn (Dawn) of NASA has to Vesta, a large asteroid 330 miles (531km) to the campus with just 0.022 times the Earth's field. These tau first space probe orbiting a large asteroid in the asteroid belt of our solar system. >>> Pictures of two asteroids Ceres and Vesta by the Hubble sent While orbiting the asteroid Vesta, Dawn spacecraft weighs 2,800 pounds will be conducting research for this big rock during a year, imaging and data collection by two ultra-high resolution camera, an optical spectrometer and infrared images, as well as a gamma ray and neutron detectors. The asteroid Vesta (Photo: NASA) With modern instruments, NASA hopes to be able to understand the origins and initial states of the solar system. The study also will help determine why Vesta is the brightest asteroid in the solar system. In a statement, Charles Bolden, director of NASA, said: "The study of dawn on the asteroid Vesta marks a major scientific achievements as well just point the way to the future where humans will be discussed in coming years. the president has directed NASA astronauts to space on an asteroid in 2025 and Dawn are collecting data to provide important information about the task. " According to Space.com, the following year, Binh Minh probe will continue to " tour" of the two asteroid ship with the next destination is Ceres, an asteroid bigger sphere and bring a name la other dwarf planets. Tau Binh Minh is expected to reach this second goal by 2015.

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