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Dawn begins mission to explore asteroid belt

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  • NEW: Dawn spacecraft launched early Thursday
  • The probe will explore the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
  • It will focus on Vesta and Ceres, to the two biggest bodies in the belt
  • Dawn has a camera, infrared spectrometer, and gamma ray and neutron detector
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