Revealing mysteries about the Solar System

An unmanned scientific probe from the US Space Agency (NASA) recently went into Vesta's meteorite orbit, to discover the secrets of the formation of the Solar System.

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The unmanned spacecraft Dawn , worth $ 466 million, was launched in 2007. On July 16, the probe flew into Vesta 's meteorite orbit - the second largest meteorite in the Surface System. God. Dawn's first task is to approach the Vesta meteorite to find out how the Solar System was formed 4.5 years ago.

After four years of flying through space, NASA's Dawn spacecraft went into orbit around a giant meteor Vesta. Photo: AP

According to the Telegraph newspaper, after a year of flying around meteorite Vesta, Dawn spacecraft will fly to Ceres dwarf planet in July 2012. Both Vesta and Ceres are protoplanets - near meteorites that are qualified to become a standard planet in the Solar System. They are all in the meteorite belt, between Mars and Jupiter.

The objective of the Dawn probe is to gather enough information about Vesta and Ceres meteors to help scientists understand the conditions and formation of the Solar System. The probe carries three scientific devices to study the surface and identify the above chemical compounds 'two of the remaining worlds in the Solar System have yet to be discovered '.

With iron cores and the ability to survive lava flows, scientists believe that the Vesta meteorite is more like Earth and the Moon than the meteorites surrounding them.

Meanwhile, Ceres - the largest meteorite in the meteorite belt - is relatively close to Vesta, but formed in different conditions. This dwarf planet has the same conditions as the frozen satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. Ceres can contain minerals that carry water and a weak atmosphere.

In the past, several probes were launched into space to study meteorites in the Solar System, including NASA's Galileo probe with the task of studying three meteors before flying into Jupiter's orbit. . However, Dawn was the first probe to fly into the orbit of a meteorite for a long time.