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2015 is shaping up to be a great year. New Horizons visits Pluto and the Dawn probe visits Ceres. Two dwarf planets in one year, when we've never visited a sing
by FireRabbit 12y ago
2015 is shaping up to be a great year. New Horizons visits Pluto and the Dawn probe visits Ceres. Two dwarf planets in one year, when we've never visited a single one before.
- InclinedPlane 12y agoDon't forget Rosetta continuing operations around comet 47P while it transitions into being an active comet.
- bmiranda 12y agoAlso don't forget Japan's Akatsuki space probe which will will attempt to insert itself in orbit around Venus in November. It "missed" in 2010 due to an engine failure and had to wait 5 years for another attempt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_%28spacecraft%29