Tag: Ceres

Washington: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft encountered a glitch while preparing for its scheduled observation of Ceres on April 29 from an “opposition” position, directly between the dwarf planet’s mysterious Occator Crater and the sun. The malfunction will not significantly impact Dawn’s rest of the extended mission, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday. One of Dawn’s […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at tackling global warming. The order seeks to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels. As part of the roll-back, Trump […]

Washington: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet called Ceres. The spacecraft was approximately 61,000 km from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity on March 6. “Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was known as a planet, then an asteroid and later a […]