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Showing posts with label NASA JPL Dawn Vesta asteroid ion propulsion engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA JPL Dawn Vesta asteroid ion propulsion engine. Show all posts

25 July 2011

An Earth Robot (Dawn) is orbiting the Solar System's biggest asteroid (4 Vesta)! It uses an ion (xenon) propulsion engine!

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A wonderful thing just happened! Earth humans for the first time sent a robot probe to an asteroid and put it into orbit! Then it began taking pictures of the asteroid!

The robot probe, Dawn, shoots through space using an ion propulsion engine! It shoots ions out its ass for velocity and acceleration!

The asteroid, Vesta, between Mars and Jupiter, is the biggest asteroid in the Solar System.