Dawn Nears Ceres - Approach Images, Movies and Animations
Dawn Nears Ceres - Approach Images, Movies and Animations

NASA's Dawn mission will arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015, and will be the first spacecraft to explore a dwarf planet.

Ceres is the largest body in the main asteroid belt.

At the time of its discovery in 1801 it was considered a planet and later demoted.