Destination Dwarf Planet: The Dawn Mission Nears Ceres

On March 6, the Dawn spacecraft will slip into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the main asteroid belt. This mission marks the first time a dwarf planet has been visited by a spacecraft and scientists are eager to see its surface in detail. Ceres gets its name from the ancient Roman goddess of agriculture and grain crops.

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Brain Food: What your breakfast has in common with the world mission is set to explore.

[xanthespace]

Congaratulations on Dawn's Ceres success from Russia!

[mosiprop]

Amusing and informative. Well done !! ;)  Makes we want to become a cereal killer ;)

[AndrewMooreAUS]

Shut up & take my money JPL!!! Please make that cereal a reality

[ProfesorBerziky]

Here from Planetary Radio, love the cereal and the mission!

[lakshwlsjxnwskx]

I wish you all the best, meanwhile in my country Romania, the corrupt government aproved a budget of 8 billion euros for 60 km of a highway ...

[derekvolt]

1:46 The bright spot, sounds a little like a G spot, exciting stuff !

[Komati]

Great video to get up to speed on the Dawn mission, and 60fps as well ^^ 

[twelge]

Oh! Can I get a box of Ceres cereal? That's my new favorite cereal!

[JellySock]

This video was so flippin' cute!  Very creative & informative:-)

[jamespruett]

I would like to see Khan Academy cover aerospace from start to finish. For example, you mention ion-propulsion, so I (ignorant of that) could dig deeper and then climb back out. This is exactly how Khan Academy covers math, for example when covering calculus, if I forget PEMDAS, KA makes it easy to go "that direction".   Thanks for posting!

[galaxia]

NASA are you going to upload the debriefing from 4 hours ago please? I missed it when it was live. (Why is it a private video now?)

[IstasPumaNevada]

Ceres-O's has much better box art than my gradeschool-effort "Marshmallow Salmon Heads". But my cereal came in a _cylinder_. So there. :)

[humbleradioTokyoAdventures]

Will the event be webcast 'LIVE' from JPL? Thanks.

[unpopuIaropinion]

Why we only get CGI and 3-4 pictures from this type of missions and not real videos?

[Damirable]

Amazing, you hell of the guys !!! Each time I've been looking at your projects - I am more and more sure about the fact how the human race is an miserable s... vs the Mother Nature aka THE SPACE ! 

[francisjones]

Can't wait till July for new horizons 2 dwarfs in one year

[TCBYEAHCUZ]

Important question: where can we get these Ceres-os? 

[rochelimit]

I began to think that NASA's strategy is to use this water-human-origin marketing strategy for the purpose of getting the funding for their missions. I don't blame them.

[indionysus]

Looks like a glassy metal reflection . . .