Get ready! NASA spacecraft soon to rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres

After voyaging 2.4 billion miles through space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is finally in the home stretch of its journey to Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt and one of five dwarf planets in the solar system.



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