{"id":36480,"date":"2018-11-03T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T12:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36480"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T05:51:42","slug":"nasas-historic-dawn-mission-to-asteroid-belt-comes-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-historic-dawn-mission-to-asteroid-belt-comes-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s historic Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nasas-historic-dawn-mission-to-asteroid-belt-comes-to-end\/article25403872.ece\"><strong>NASA\u2019s historic Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>NASA\u2019s pioneering Dawn spacecraft in the asteroid belt has run out of fuel, ending its historic 11-year mission that unravelled many mysteries of our solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>About Dawn Spacecraft:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The $467million Dawn mission was launched in 2007 to study the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.<\/li>\n<li>Propelled by ion engines, the spacecraft achieved many firsts along the way.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011, when Dawn arrived at Vesta ( the second largest world in the main asteroid belt), the spacecraft became the first to orbit a body in the region between Mars and Jupiter.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, when Dawn went into orbit around Ceres (a dwarf planet that is also the largest world in the asteroid belt), the mission became the first to visit a dwarf planet and go into orbit around two destinations beyond Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Significance of the findings: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The astounding images and data that Dawn collected from Vesta and Ceres are critical to understanding the history and evolution of our solar system,<\/li>\n<li>Dawn also reinforced the idea that dwarf planets could have hosted oceans over a significant part of their history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s historic Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end\u2019 News: NASA\u2019s pioneering Dawn spacecraft in the asteroid belt has run out of fuel, ending its historic 11-year mission that unravelled many mysteries of our solar system. Important Facts: About Dawn Spacecraft: The $467million Dawn mission was launched in 2007 to study the protoplanet Vesta&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-historic-dawn-mission-to-asteroid-belt-comes-to-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA\u2019s historic Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[581,217,580,242],"class_list":["post-36480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-dawn-spacecraft","tag-gs-3","tag-nasa","tag-science-and-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704684341},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}