Discoveries On 4 Vesta That Shocked NASA Scientists | Dawn

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

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Image Credits: NASA/Dawn

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[geoffreyhhill]

Astrum is quickly becoming one of my favorite YouTube science channels. Keep the videos coming

[DanielZajic]

Holy cow, another amazing video. I feel like they just get better and better. My favorite content on YouTube, bar none.
That planetary formation footage was so cool, and it was so fascinating learning about Vesta and the Dawn spacecraft. I want to know more now.

[RandyJames]

I'm glad you decided to inVESTA fair amount of time on this video. Fascinating stuff. Thanks!

[emu]

I remember following this mission monthly when it was active, yet I still learned so much from this video! You do amazing work making your videos interesting and educational, even for those of us who follow space stuff often! Cheers!

[terrytuite]

I would like to learn more about this ion engine you spoke of. Can you do a video on that?

Thank you so much for making this channel!
I've only started watching recently, and I've already almost watched all of your videos!!
Your explanations are always so clear, and you make it so interesting to watch,
and you include so much detail.

.. and I love your voice!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I'm so glad I found this channel!

[sebp]

Slightly happy about the title going to Olympus Monz for tallest mountain, it just seems right.

[ATLOffroad]

I remember Dawn’s launch at Cape Canaveral . Thanks for filling me in on what it was up to.

[yoBigWave]

I could listen to you talk space all day long. Hope for a great career in narration and Astronomy for you, Alex. Thanks for all these videos

[OHFORPEATSAKES]

0 to 100 in four days... reminds me of my first car 😊

[Mr.Nichan]

I think it might be optical illusion, but the "pitted terrain" on Mars usually looks like bumps coming out of the surface rather than pits or craters, where as the ones on Vesta always looks like craters/pits to me. I really do think it's an optical illusion, though, because sometimes I look at the those Mars pictures in the video and do see them as pits rather than bumps, like normal, particularly when I look back up while it's paused with the Vesta picture in view next to it (presumably because my brain is transferring the idea of craters/pits from the Vesta picture to the Mars picture). It is interesting that I never see the Vesta pits as bumps, though, though it probably just means that the Vesta pictures are shot at an angle while the the Mars pictures are shot from straight above or something like that.

[naddelintijuana]

Wow. Amazing. Thank you for breaking the information down so everyone can understand it.
How is about the future they "draw" in the series "The Expanse", do you think we will life out there in the astroids like Vesta? I really would like to here your vision on the future.
Keep it up, you doing a great job 👏👏👏

[UseQPixinDune]

I'm binge watching all your videos! Love this stuff!

[francisspinoy]

Excellent documentary. Awaiting part 2. Thanks.
By the way, I am interested by the Vesta's metallic core you mentionned. Could this be digged out in the future ? Or is it useless in this case, because - as an example - of Psyche which is almost entirely metallic ?

[adibonts]

This is why you are my favorite visual-astronomy channel! Thank you Astrum!!

[shadowraith]

Done well. Looking forward to part two. Thank you👍🛰🛰🛰👍

[PK-kjzv]

You should have a million subscribers man. People are stupid, no one gives a damn bout our universe. Love your work. Hope to meet you some day. Bless you.

[ChrisDIYerOklahoma]

My favorite YouTube channel! Can't wait for Part 2.

[frankbrowne]

Alex thank you for a great episode, as usual. Stay the course, I watch your program to learn, not to check your grammar, etc.

[Ketamineman]

9:20 vesta: “dang dude that cut deep😔”