Dawn

This profile visualizes NASA’s Dawn mission which launched in 2007 with the goal of studying two known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. The profile starts focused on a model of the Dawn spacecraft with the time and date set to Saturday, August 6, 2011, as the spacecraft orbits Vesta. Navigate between mission milestones such as its launch, flyby of Mars, and orbits of Vesta and Ceres by using the Mission GUI.