Currently, scientists are working with the Dawn spacecraft are making a big impact with a new discovery: one of the largest mountain in the solar system have been found on an asteroid!
Asteroids are chunks of rock and ice of matter in space. He was very old and was formed when the solar system was born. Most of the Solar System asteroids found between Mars the planet Jupiter - an area called Ateroid Belt.
By studying them, astronomers can study the Solar System pementukan. That's why astronomers sent Dawn spacecraft on the way to an asteroid called Vesta 4 years who are in the Asteroid Belt. Since July, Dawn is in orbit around the asteroid rock surface space shooter.
Vesta size is much smaller than the Earth. If the Earth is populated by an asteroid Vesta, the asteroid Vesta 14,000 needed to be able to fill the earth!. Well, even though only a small rock, photos captured Dawn spacecraft show that Vesta has the largest mountain in the solar system on its surface. Great mountain has a height of 20,000 feet or twice the height of the tallest mountain on Earth!.
July next year, the spacecraft Dawn will leave Vesta to Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Solar System. To explore the two spacecraft Dawn asteroid using a new type of engine called "ion control" - sounds like in Star Trek?
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