NASA resumed the task of exploring asteroids

NASA launches a spacecraft.Photos from foreign websites.

The US aerospace agency (NASA) has decided to resume the exploration mission of two of the solar system's largest asteroids. A few weeks ago, NASA decided to remove this project for technical and financial reasons.

The Dawn probe, tasked with studying objects from when the solar system first formed and 4.5 billion years ago, will be put into orbit around the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. .

These are two of the largest solar asteroids, around the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

At the beginning of the mission Dawn was decided in December 2001 with the launch of an exploration ship scheduled for June 2006. Many problems have caused the launch of the ship to be postponed in 2007 and increased the cost to $ 446 million (instead of $ 373 million originally planned).