What NASA's Dawn Saw on Ceres and Vesta Stunned Me | Supercut
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Published 2022-04-01
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NASA's dawn mission to explore Vesta and Ceres ended after a remarkable 11 years in space with no fuel to point its antenna at Earth. It left the protoplanet Vesta in 2012, reached the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015, and remained in orbit after a successful mission in 2018.
When Dawn entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, it became the first spacecraft to circle an asteroid in the area where most of the Solar System's asteroids are found, in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn is part of the NASA Discovery mission and was designed to orbit the asteroid Vesta, which is located between Jupiter and Mars. The Asteroid Belt Unmanned Probe is a mission designed to rendezvous with and orbit the asteroid Vesta, the largest asteroid. As with the asteroid Vesta, the unmanned asteroid belt probe entered a series of circumpolar circular orbits that will provide vantage points to study almost the entire surface of the dwarf planet.
Dawn was the first mission to explore the dwarf planet, reaching Ceres a few months before the New Horizons probe arrived at Pluto in July 2015. Dawn was also the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, several months ahead of New Horizons, which made a historic flyby of Pluto and Charon in July 2015.
Dawn is the first spacecraft to ever successfully fly around two extraterrestrial objects. Dawn will now permanently orbit Ceres, testifying to the pioneering spirit of space exploration.
Dawn was originally expected to leave Vesta on August 26, 2012 and begin its two-and-a-half-year journey to Ceres. Transit month. , arrived at Ceres on March 6, 2015. Dawn reached the large asteroid Vesta on July 16, 2011 and orbited Vesta until September 5, 2012, when it traveled to the dwarf planet Ceres.
After leaving the asteroid Vesta, Dawn traveled to the dwarf planet Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit and orbit a dwarf planet and the first to orbit two alien targets. On her second flight, Don will travel to Ceres, where she will become the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet and orbit two alien objects. Engineers deorbited Dawn from the asteroid belt in 2012 and brought Dawn into the asteroid belt for more than two years before placing it in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, where it has been since 2015 Data collection.
In 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft took the 600-kilometer egg-shaped Vesta into orbit for a year before heading to Ceres, arriving in 2015. solar system. NASA's Dawn spacecraft proved that the protoplanet Vesta was indeed the source of HED meteorites and had enough internal heat to differentiate (separate) into a crust-mantle-core structure, just like Earth.
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0:00 Introduction
1:47 Dawn's Ion Engine
3:37 Vesta
11:44 Ceres
All Comments (21)
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It's like he is always smiling when talking
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making 20min feeling absurdly short yet again Was glued to the screen, great work alex :)
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Astrum is one of those channel that uploads videos with more than 18 minutes of video and yet it always feel like I'm watching not longer than 2 minutes. And after watching it, always leaves me satisfied and filled with more wonder. Thank you so much for this and all the videos you've made so far.
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It's hard to believe that rock is actually 300+ miles wide and just floating around in space. I tried to imagine the troughs along the equator as being bigger than the grand canyon but my brain won't let me lol I can't even picture it. That's amazing.
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Beautifully done. The stars and universe only make me feel like a tiny particle, yet intimately connected to it all. Thank you for this! ❤️
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We live in amazing times and it's so easy to take it for granted. To us this is just normal stuff (just another video) but for thousands of years all these things were unseen... unknown. Now we can watch anything from sperm fertilizing an egg to the surface of a distant rock in space... all without ever leaving your house. We truly live in amazing times.
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Nice, Dawn mission in one video
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Gotta love every minute of these videos, to let me forget at least for a short time about the harsh reality on earth. Thx Alex!
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I love in this video and many others, the close up detailed photos of unique features, geology, craters, formations, canyons, mountains, scars, ice, etc. So many details and so little time!
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It's interesting that Dawn was left in orbit around Ceres. Several other spacecrafts visiting foreign bodies were carefully disposed of, such as Rosetta that was crashed into comet 67P or Cassini entering Saturn's atmosphere. At least for Cassini, there was a concern that life from Earth might contaminate one of Saturn's moons if it crashed into it and large parts of the spacecraft survived the collision. Is there no such concern with Ceres? Not that Ceres itself would host life, but maybe could carry it somewhere else.
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Fantastic video! Really learned a lot. I don’t recall ever hearing much about the Dawn mission back when it was happening.
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Dawn was awesome, and "Ion Drive" just sounds so cool and futuristic, like something from Star Trek or Star Wars (Twin Ion Engine!). And while we bemoan the loss of Pluto, let's celebrate the upgrade of Ceres to Dwarf Planet!
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It's one thing to see these objects from Earth. It's amazing to see these objects up close and personal. We have learned so much from many unmanned missions. It never gets boring.
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Space exploration is mind blowing! I absolutely love it!
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your passion about this topic makes your videos all the more satisfying to watch, keep them coming!
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You are in my top 3 astronomy channels i watch reguarly. Excellent work you do!
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Watching those real images, makes me respect Elite Dangerous (game) developers so much more. To those who don't know what Elite Dangerous is, it's a space simulator(ish) sci-fi game, where you're able to go anywhere in Milky Way, but the detail of our Solar system is so good, they actually take real info from NASA and other places and make game as realistic as possible. Those planets and asteroids literally look like game footage, it's so well done. On some reason you can't land on moon yet tho, they probably working on extreme detail, but it's all so realistic. Only other devs who have put such detail into their game, were Arma 3 developers and they actually got arrested in Greece for "spying" on military base. They wanted to record real footage of real military bases and add some of that stuff into their game.
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I love your channel. Great work, my dood.
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Exciting! There are sights of wonder to be seen, but not in our lifetime. Thanks for showing this.
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I really love your videos they are so interesting and informative, keep up the good work man.
