Having just said I hadn't heard anything about
Dawn recently, I guess I just wasn't paying attention. Mission director Marc Rayman writes:
An intrepid interplanetary explorer is now powering its way down through the gravity field of a distant alien world. Soaring on a blue-green beam of high-velocity xenon ions, Dawn is making excellent progress as it spirals closer and closer to Ceres, the first dwarf planet discovered. Meanwhile, scientists are progressing in analyzing the tremendous volume of pictures and other data the probe has already sent to Earth.
Dawn is now spiraling down from its third mapping orbit to its fourth where it will be taking highly detailed photographs of Ceres.