Asteroids
Space Spectacular — Rotation Movies of Vesta
http://youtu.be/FU65KCwxA6A Take us into orbit Mr. Sulu! The Dawn science team has released two spectacular rotation movies of the entire…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Asteroid Field Testing
How will we work and set up a base camp on an asteroid? NASA is currently doing some field work…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: The Orion MPCV
Back in 2007, when the Constellation program to return to the Moon was still the program of record for NASA,…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Why Should NASA Go?
Imagine, if you can, the first time human eyes see Earth as a distant, pale blue dot. We’ve dreamed of…
NASA Unveils Thrilling First Full Frame Images of Vesta from Dawn
[/caption] NASA has just released the first full frame images of Vesta- and they are thrilling! The new images unveil…
New Impact Rate Count Lays Nemesis Theory to Rest
[/caption] From a Max Planck Institute for Astronomy press release: Is the Earth more likely or less likely to be…
Earth’s First Trojan Asteroid Discovered
[/caption] The first known "Trojan" asteroid in Earth's orbit has been discovered. A Trojan asteroid shares an orbit with a…
First Ever Vesta Vistas from Orbit – in 2D and 3D
[/caption] The first ever Vesta Vista snapped from the protoplanets orbit has been transmitted back through 117 million miles of…
Dawn Exceeds Wildest Expectations as First Ever Spacecraft to Orbit a Protoplanet – Vesta
[/caption] NASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the…
Latest Image from Dawn: View of Vesta Getting Sharper
[/caption] The Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to asteroid/protoplanet Vesta, and the view is getting better! Here’s the latest image,…