NASA's Dawn Spacecraft

NASA is on the verge of visiting an asteroid. The Dawn spacecraft is about as far from Ceres as the Moon is from Earth right now and is beginning to send back images of the asteroid. The resolution is not as good as Hubble (yet), but as it gets closer, we will begin to see it in better detail.

This processed image, taken Jan. 13, 2015, shows the dwarf planet Ceres as seen from the Dawn spacecraft. The image hints at craters on the surface of Ceres. Dawn's framing camera took this image at 238,000 miles from Ceres. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

There are a couple of places that you can follow the Dawn Program.

• Twitter: NASA_Dawn
• NASA's Dawn Homepage