Dawn Mission Engagement and Communications (E/C)

Presentations from NASA scientists and engineers about missions to the asteroid belt and beyond.

Destination Ceres: Icy World Revealed?
Britney Schmidt (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julie Castillo-Rogez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) discussed Ceres, a class of solar system objects that haven't yet been explored in depth, and how those explorations have the potential to change our concept of early solar system formation. We are predicting that Ceres is a dirt-covered icy world which will tell us about processes that operate in the early solar system, where, for a long time, most scientists thought ice didn't exist.