After becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, the NASA probe is now the first to orbit a dwarf planet.
Space probe Dawn has successfully slipped into orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet. “We feel exhilarated,” says lead researcher Chris Russell at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a statement after Dawn radioed back to Earth on March 6.
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