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Octafish

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13. Truly amazing spacecraft.

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 09:43 PM

Mar 2015

Visited and now orbited the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt.

Remarkable achievement of engineering. May the science astound us all. Going by the initial pictures, it already has.

Like Scotty said: "Ach. Ion power, too."

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Probe 'Dawn' enters orbit of dwarf planet Ceres: NASA [View all] Bosonic Mar 2015 OP

Isn't Ceres the little 'planet' that had a light shining elias49 Mar 2015 #1

Probably - water ice in a deep crater. LongTomH Mar 2015 #5

The final approach is quite weird, thanks to a cosmic ray hit that stopped the thruster muriel_volestrangler Mar 2015 #2

If only..... Plucketeer Mar 2015 #3

A size comparison of Ceres, Earth, and the Moon NBachers Mar 2015 #4

Dawn: 'Confirmed: I am in orbit around #Ceres' Baclava Mar 2015 #6

Thank you for sharing Telcontar Mar 2015 #9

Robots rule Baclava Mar 2015 #12

Those white spots sure are curious Android3.14 Mar 2015 #7

Why need NASA, science, or politicians, when you've got God on your side?!?! blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #8

This is awesome. Calista241 Mar 2015 #10

...or maybe we wake the slumber of The Old Ones Baclava Mar 2015 #11

Truly amazing spacecraft. Octafish Mar 2015 #13