Summary: Up-to-date night sky activity beginning February 14, 2012 through February 27, 2012. In this episode: Dawn, as a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before. In Dawn’s case, it is orbiting one member of the main asteroid belt, Vesta, before heading to gather yet more data at a second, Ceres. Mark Sykes of the Dawn Mission talks about the objects of Dawn's attention and what questions the mission seeks to answer.
