Episode 351
What can we learn from NASA's Dawn probe?
NASA's Dawn probe is bearing down on Ceres. What do we hope to learn from the asteroid?
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
March 6, 20153m 20s
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Show Notes
After a seven and a half year journey, and with a price tag just shy of half a billion Dollars, NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally has the asteroid Ceres in its sights. Ceres is a massive asteroid which sits among a clutch of much smaller boulders, pebbles and dust out beyond the orbit of Mars. This field of debris is the rocky rubble left over from the time when the inner planets, including the Earth, were first forming, about 4 and a half billion years ago. This means asteroids like Ceres can help to uncover the origins of Earth and the minerals and materials, including the water, that we have... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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