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The NASA Dawn spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral in September 2007 atopa Delta II rocket starting an ambitious journey to Vesta and Ceres, the twomost massive worlds in the largest reservoir of asteroids in the Solar System,the Main Belt. Prior to the Dawn launch, Earth-bound observations of Vesta andCeres revealed intriguing features--from Vesta's rugged shape to Ceres' tenuouswater exosphere--, but these objects remained fuzzy speckles of light eventhrough the lenses of the most powerful telescopes. With Dawn's exploration ofVesta (2011-2012) and Ceres (2015-2018) these two worlds came into focus.Breath-taking details emerged of how large collisions sculpted Vesta liberatingmassive amounts of material in the inner Main Belt, providing the source of animportant family of meteorites recovered on Earth. Ceres' complex geology,which may rival that of the Earth and Mars, unveiled recent cryovolcanicactivity. This book is dedicated to these highlights, and many more discoveriesof the Dawn mission. By the time Dawn completed its mission in 2018, ourunderstanding of the formation of the Solar System had greatly evolved thanksto new theoretical models and to a new trove of meteorite geochemical data, andDawn observations of Vesta and Ceres provide new, vital constraints tosynergistically interpret models and data. The broader implications of the Dawnlegacy are presented in a series of dedicated chapters. The editors hope thisbook will serve as a solid reference for the younger generations as well as formore seasoned researchers to successfully pursue future exploration of the MainBelt. We certainly have learned a lot thanks to Dawn, and yet we know that wehave barely scratched the surface of what Main Belt asteroids can tell us aboutthe dawn of our Solar System.

The Renaissance of Main Belt Asteroid Science