Hubble And Dawn Collaborate To See Ceres

As the Dawn Spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet Ceres in a matter of months, it's difficult to forget the amount of teamwork and collaboration that took place in order for amazing feats like this to be accomplished. 

As of right now, the +Hubble Space Telescope has the highest resolution image of Ceres, but that's all about to change as Dawn arrives and gives us all a completely new perspective of the largest object in the asteroid belt. In fact, the images taken by Hubble have been highly instrumental in the planning phases of getting Dawn to Ceres, as well as Vesta.

To continue in the spirit of collaboration, this week's #HubbleHangout  will be with those involved in imaging Ceres with Hubble as well as members of the +Dawn Mission Education and Communications (E/C) team!

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis, who will be on location at +NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with +Keri Bean as we discuss the long journey Dawn has made to get to Ceres. Joining them as well is +Max Mutchler and +Jianyang Li who worked on getting the gorgeous view from Hubble. 

Bring your questions and comments and we'll read them on air throughout the hangout!

Read more here:
_Hubble Images of Asteroids Help Astronomers Prepare for Spacecraft Visit_

_Dawn Snaps Its Best-Yet Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres_

*Special Note*

Our own Dr. +Jason Kalirai has been nominated for a Listener Choice Award for an audio segment on Exploring Exoplanets released last July.

Please show your support for the #JWST mission by listening to his segment here

and voting here:

#Space   #Astronomy   #Hubble   #Ceres   #Dawn

[galaxia]

Wow interesting, thank you very much and really nice getting to know Keri Bean !

[coffeefish]

Good stuff. I'm sure that a pile of funding will roll your direction. Keep looking up.

[theqwedf]

The GIF compiled with images from 2003/2004 shown at around 10:30 seems to show the mysterious bright spot that Dawn recently sent back.

[DOSTalks]

Just watched the von Karman lecture on this, crazy stuff!

[jejkrave]

first: magnetic poles. that is Planet main Signature!

[GaryM]

Given Ceres doesn't clear it's own neighbourhood will you be analysing objects in the area of Ceres if you come across any?

[joebenike]

I think Scott might have a thing for Keri.

[GaryM]

Well that answered my question before I had chance to ask :)

[skirchdorfer]

When will we start getting approach images that show more details from Ceres prior to when it arrives??

[coffeefish]

What is the maximum speed of this ion drive probe? I am always wondering if it's capable of matching the speed of Voyager1 by the time it had accelerated across a roughly similar great distance (out to the Ort Cloud for example.)

[nathaneliotrowan]

could you share the link to the water volume image?

[jejkrave]

Can you point your Telescope on our Binary Dark Star accompanion?

[panxeto]

Is Dawn going to visit any other body of the solar system after Ceres?

[dat_chip]

"Prime directive"? Ha ha, you guys are hilarious.
Good point, of course. Contamination is bad.

[npin]

When will the next picture be online? they said januari 25th it would take a new picture.

[danielebianchino]

It would be very nice Italian subtitles for this video ..
Is it possible? : - /