Which planet will NASA Spacecraft Dawn Probe?
Options
A) Pluto
B) Mars
C) Ceres
D) None
Answer
C) Ceres
Other Detials
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
It is composed of rock and ice, is 950 kilometers (590 miles) in diameter and comprises approximately one third of the mass of the asteroid belt.
It is the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System and the only object in the asteroid belt known to be unambiguously rounded by its own gravity.
Discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi
Discovery date 1 January 1801
Dawn is a space probe launched by NASA in 2007 with dual missions: The astronomical mission of studying two of the three protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, and the engineering mission of test-running a new form of propulsion, the ion drive.Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies. It is currently in orbit about its second target, the dwarf planet Ceres.
