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Dawn's Mission to Vesta

In another milestone in space exploration, for the first time, a spacecraft has gone into orbit around a massive asteroid. An Adler Planetarium astronomer tells Eddie Arruza what the spacecraft is looking for and what mysteries it might solve.

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