On this day in 2007 - September 27th - NASA's Dawn spacecraft was launched.

Dawn orbited and studied the asteroid Vesta, and then went on tosatudy dwarf planet Ceres. The mission is finished, but it's still in orbit around Ceres.



Mona Evans
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