Dawn was a NASA space probe sent to study the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Launched from Cape Canaveral in 2007, it used an efficient ion propulsion system, which let it enter orbit around a body, leave it and travel to another, something no earlier spacecraft had done. It reached Vesta in 2011 and stayed for over a year, then arrived at the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015. At Ceres it found bright patches of salts in Occator crater and evidence of ice beneath the surface. The mission ended in 2018 when the probe ran out of the fuel it needed to control its orientation.
Before and after
- from 8 September 2007 to 23 November 2012Premiere of iCarly
- 14 September 2007Launch of SELENE
- from 18 September 2007 to 17 December 2012Premiere of Gossip Girl
- from 24 September 2007 to 16 May 2019Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
- 27 September 2007Launch of Dawn
- October 2007Discovery of TrES-4 b
- 10 October 2007Release of Team Fortress 2
- 24 October 2007Launch of Chang'e 1
- 5 November 2007Release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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- 20 August 1977Launch of Voyager 2
- 23 July 1995Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Nix
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Hydra
- 10 September 2005Discovery of Dysnomia
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