Launch pad workers prepare the Dawn spacecraft for its attachment to a Delta 2 rocket. The probe is set to launch in September 2007 to visit the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. Credit: NASA/Jim Grossman.
An artist's interpretation of NASA's Dawn spacecraft in flight. Credit: NASA.
A line drawing of Dawn's trajectory as it makes it's way toward its targets in the Asteroid Belt. Dashed lines represent orbits of Mars Vesta and Ceres. Credit: NASA.
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