NASA’s New Horizons probe, which made history last summer with its flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, was given the green light to travel deeper into the Kuiper Belt and explore another Kuiper Belt object, dubbed 2014 MU69. The tiny probe is expected to reach MU69 in early January 2019. NASA also announced that Dawn spacecraft will stay put on its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres as plans for it to … [Read more...]
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Releases the Sharpest Image of Ceres
NASA has recently released the sharpest picture of the dwarf planet Ceres. The picture was taken by its Dawn spacecraft, which is scheduled to enter the planet’s orbit five weeks from now. The 590-mile wide Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt. It was previously classified as an asteroid, but due to its particular features it was promoted to the rank of dwarf planet in the same year … [Read more...]