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Watch Dwarf Planet Ceres As It Spins
Loren Grush
at 08:30 AM Feb 6 2015
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Space // 

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is about to get up, close, and personal with Ceres, a dwarf planet that's been lurking in the asteroid belt. As it approaches, Dawn has been snapping some amazing images of the rock, and it just took some of its highest-resolution photographs yet.

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We're About To Visit A Tiny Planet In The Asteroid Belt For The First Time
sarahfecht
at 12:02 PM Jan 26 2015
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We're About To Visit A Tiny Planet In The Asteroid Belt For The First Time
Space Travel // 

While the world awaits the first visit of Pluto this July, another space mission will reach a strange world much closer to home. And months sooner.

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