Dawn - NASA Science (original) (raw)
Dawn was NASA’s first truly interplanetary spaceship. The mission featured extended stays at two very different extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. Both small worlds reside in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Dawn was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial destinations – the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, both in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.