Dawn Mission: Hubble Inspired
Channel: astrospherevids
Date: 2014-02-12

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Air Date: Dec 5, 2013
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been expanding our concept of the universe for more than twenty years. When it turned its optics upon protoplanets Ceres and Vesta in the main asteroid belt, its data became part of the inspiration for the Dawn mission.

The guests for our latest G+ Hangout, Max Mutchler and Jian-Yang Li, research scientists intimately engaged with HST findings, talked about what we've learned from HST, the search for satellites [mini-moons], first at Vesta and now for Ceres, and our hopes for Ceres.

Find more information at the Dawn website: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/dawncommunity/Google_hangout_12_05_2013.asp