{"id":9562,"date":"2014-03-31T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:34:56","slug":"dawn-mission-wins-national-air-and-space-museum-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9562","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Mission Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, the Dawn Mission team was awarded the 2014 Trophy for Current Achievement, the Smithsonian&#8217;s highest honor bestowed on groups.\u00a0 The Dawn probe is the first to explore asteroids within our solar system&#8217;s main belt up close.\u00a0 UCLA Professor Christopher T. Russell, an iPLEX member, is the principal investigator for the Dawn mission and traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\/portal\/ut\/fbb-post.aspx?id=5909\">UCLA Newsroom<\/a>.\u00a0 Find out more about Dawn on their mission <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/dawn\/20140328\/dawn20140328-full.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"329\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured here are the following members of the Dawn team (from left to right): Grant Faris, Carol Polanskey, Chris Russell, Steve Joy, Greg Whiffen, Marc Rayman, Robert Mase, Tim Weise, Brett Smith, Nick Mastrodemos, Paul Fieseler, Carol Raymond and Don Han. Image credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, the Dawn Mission team was awarded the 2014 Trophy for Current Achievement, the Smithsonian&#8217;s highest honor bestowed on groups.\u00a0 The Dawn probe is the first to explore asteroids within our solar system&#8217;s main belt up close.\u00a0 UCLA Professor Christopher T. Russell, an iPLEX member, is the principal investigator for the Dawn mission &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dawn Mission Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}