Dawn Just Wants To Make All The Other Probes Look Bad

The Dawn spacecraft, NASA's asteroid hopping probe, may not be going gently into that good night as planned. Dawn has visited Vesta and Ceres, and for now remains in orbit around Ceres. The Dawn mission was supposed to end after its rendezvous with Ceres, but now, reports say that the Dawn team has asked NASA to extend the mission to visit a third asteroid. [embed]s://.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxPw_T8Vlk[/embed] Dawn was launched in 2007, and in 2011 and 2012 spent 14 months at Vesta. After Vesta, i...