NASA's Dawn mission patch, part of the Mission Art series.
Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgments, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | 4 Vesta | |
System | Main Belt | |
Target Type | Asteroid | |
Mission | Dawn | |
Instrument Host | Dawn | |
Host Type | Orbiter | |
Instrument | ||
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Color | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 2007-01-01 | |
Date in Caption | ||
Image Credit | NASA/McREL | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19375 | |
Identifier | PIA19375 |