NASA - Dawn's Mission to the Asteroid Belt

[mquiroz90]

@Dezarus2100 Why that will it hit in 2015 or pass

[david25luvit]

We definitely need to know more about the asteroids that inhabit the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres and Vesta are fascinating in their own right....having evolved separately within the same region of space. Aptly named Dawn is truly on a mission of discovery when our solar system was created...The ion propulsion is another innovation put to practical use.

[onlywhenpissed]

Can see this from my back garden.

[ReneeNme]

Getting damn close now. Can't wait.

[akumaChirichian]

is that true that it will appear in 2015 the minor planet ceres

[kolleamm]

why does the satelite need to come back? I dont understand

[KWalzar]

@kolleamm It is not coming back. It will orbit encounter and orbit Vesta starting late summer this year. After about 10 months it will leave Vesta and head to Ceres. It will encounter Ceres in 2015. The Hayabusa mission from the Japanese Space Agency did visit an asteroid (Itokawa). It landed on it and returned samples to Earth last summer. You can google Hayabusa or NASA Dawn for more cool info about these missions.

[natinegga513]

could the ateroid belt have been a gas giant. when its mostly helium and hydrogen gas atmosphere was too close to its surfice and ignited from an interstellar collision it produced what we see today billions of years later

[rehzon]

Another mission (or waste of tax dollars) to take some nice pictures of a rock?

[bombarderoazul]

@rehzon you know these asteroids contains lots of precious resources, maybe in the future we can mine them. I have read that some asteroids contain large quantities of gold.

[culturalmut]

cool

[viomartyr]

That glare coming from the ion propulsion engine looks cool.

Also, I never thought I'd say such a sentence in my life.

[Ramshobraja]

Jpl is sooo cool.

[august21baby]

i like it

[hkostal]

Terrible "music"

I hate it!

[maazy94]

there is no such thing as evolution

[fecalbell]

@maazy94 well we can observe it happening, evolution is a fact. Not that anyone would read it anyway, but a youtube comment couldn't a thorough explanation of everything we've learned through science. but it's depressing to see this degree of ignorance I'm seeing here. I don't think you even realize that evolution is not the same thing as the theory of evolution. darwin's theory is dominant but there are and have been other theories.

[Isuckatpaintball2]

there is no such thing as god :/

[spuddy010896]

@maazy94 theres too many uneducated fools like yourself that make statements that are completly wrong...you dimwit

[12swordmaster]

one thing I know; we didn't evolve from anything, the organs in are body's are different from there's and if it apparenly takes millions of years to evolve that's to long by the time anything figured out to evolve they'd be dead and dead things don't evolve.

[mikedelhoo]

The idea is that each living thing is a little different from its parent(s), some differences help some creatures to survive and reproduce better than others, and when you add up all those small differences over millions of years the result is a big change. So nobody has to figure out how to make a big change all at once.

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

space.... where humans came from. but we didn't come AS humans... evolution clearly took it's course, now to figure what REALITY is, and if dimensions exist out of this reality, crazy existance we live in... and only the living experience life... not the dead or possible created lifes... crazy.

[teensmovieincorp]

what is the song name because it is so cool :)

[MrEdwardJohn]

Did you get the song yet ? if e, then plz do let me know/ Thanks

[Dezarus2100]

2015, Ceres. Cant waitttt..

[redsunnyhi12]

wats the song name

[lerokz]

Requesting entrancing song of this video please artist name or name of track i beg you

[redsunnyhi12]

if u get the song name tell me

[abusafyan]

the video sucks..boring

[umairs85]

i love astronomy

[iGotMetal]

@umairs85 me too, it races through my head everyday

[MihaPiter]

My name is on that spacecraft ;))along with a few thousend others on a DVD

[pilot7893]

Orbiting ceres would be easy because it is round, not irregular like most other asteroids

[MounDoGG]

Nice stuff! thnx :) Song name plzzzzz

[GeFORCE95]

cool stuff. soon we may have to go to different galax if there is a planet that has life in it

[Veetina]

All this technology and we are not able to avert an asteroid that cause armageddon!

[pointblank3000]

i was able to see asteroids fly by last night near my house those things look cool

[clownbaton]

Awesome.Track name/artist?

[Parthamasiris]

Nice.

[alien8ted]

'Dawn is scheduled to fly past Mars by April 2009, and after more than four years of travel, the spacecraft will arrive at Vesta in 2011.

The spacecraft will orbit Vesta for about nine months before setting off in 2012 for a three-year cruise to Ceres.

Dawn will arrive at Ceres in 2015 to conduct studies for at least five months.'

BBC News

The race is on, which will be the first probe to reach a dwarf planet, New Horizons at Pluto or Dawn at Ceres, both scheduled for 2015?

[madcio]

First will be Dawn.

[iNsAnE7153]

yeah right..i dont think is just so simple as it shows here.First the asteroid is coming with such a great speed that i dont think that this will work out like it shows and i think someone of us has to do that and not this machine..

[HAL11000]

You should watch a comprehensive movie about DAWN. Enter 'Dawn Mission Video' on google video.