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Where is Dawn?

February 2009: Dawn on course for Mars Gravity Assist

The next major milestone on the mission timeline is the Mars gravity assist maneuver, in February 2009, which is designed to help the spacecraft reach Vesta.
To know more; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawnf-20090212.html

In this website:

	Dawn section contains general Information about the NASA Mission.			VIR section section is entirely about the VIR Spectrometer instrument.
	Science section is dedicated to a better understanding of VIR science.			Resources is the right section to find images, documents about VIr and Dawn.

Welcome to VIR-Dawn new website!

In these pages you will find information about Dawn, a NASA mission that was launched on September 2007, and the VIR Spectrometer (Visual and Infrared Spectrometer), an instrument by the italian INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) that flies on it. Dawn will study two asteroids, Vesta and Ceres and in these pages, you will also learn about its scientific load, asteroids' science, the solar system, spacecraft technology, scientific instruments and much more.

Dawn and VIR in the media:

Click here for a coverage on how Dawn and VIR appear in the italian media