Dawn’s spiral descent from its first mapping orbit (RC3) to its second (survey). The two mapping orbits are shown in green. The color of Dawn’s trajectory progresses through the spectrum from blue, when it began ion-thrusting on May 9, to red, when ion-thrusting concludes on June 3. The red dashed sections show where Dawn is coasting, mostly for telecommunications. The first two coast periods include OpNav 8 and 9. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 1 posted on
06/08/2015 11:22:44 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
2 posted on
06/08/2015 11:24:51 AM PDT by
GeronL
To: BenLurkin
“As Dawn flew 2,700 miles...”
That’s really far away! Why don’t they want to get any cloer?
3 posted on
06/08/2015 11:42:28 AM PDT by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: BenLurkin
4 posted on
06/08/2015 11:46:43 AM PDT by
freedumb2003
(When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
To: BenLurkin
Very cool enhanced video. It’s a dangerous neighborhood, as demonstrated by all the impact craters. Glad we have some protection down here.
6 posted on
06/08/2015 12:15:03 PM PDT by
catbertz
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