The Lucy mission is one step closer to embarking on its 12-year study of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. This month, the mission successfully completed its Critical Design Review, paving the way for spacecraft assembly to begin. Lucy is named for the famous Australopithecus afarensis hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors; by making the first exploration of the Trojan asteroids, the Lucy mission will improve our understanding of the early solar system, and be the first to uncove
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The Lucy mission is one step closer to embarking on its 12-year study of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. This month, the mission successfully completed its Critical Design Review, paving the way for spacecraft assembly to begin. Lucy is named for the famous Australopithecus afarensis hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors; by making the first exploration of the Trojan asteroids, the Lucy mission will improve our understanding of the early solar system, and be the first to uncove
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Twelve years, four billion miles, and a whole lot of science. In just a few months, NASA's Lucy mission lifts off and begins its epic journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The asteroids are believed to be very early remnants from the creation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, providing a perfect time capsule of what our solar system was like when the planets formed. See how we're getting Lucy ready for its journey to deep space. | Lockheed Martin
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Twelve years, four billion miles, and a whole lot of science. In just a few months, NASA's Lucy mission lifts off and begins its epic journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The asteroids are believed to be very early remnants from the creation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago, providing a perfect time capsule of what our solar system was like when the planets formed. See how we're getting Lucy ready for its journey to deep space. | Lockheed Martin
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Lucy mission trajectory
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While the Lucy spacecraft continues traveling toward the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, scientists continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. This timelapse shows images taken by the spacecraft a few minutes before its closest approach - giving us a full view of the asteroid. Check out more imagery from the encounter HERE: https://lucy.swri.edu/DonaldjohansonImageGallery.html#Stereograms | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Cent
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While the Lucy spacecraft continues traveling toward the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, scientists continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. This timelapse shows images taken by the spacecraft a few minutes before its closest approach - giving us a full view of the asteroid. Check out more imagery from the encounter HERE: https://lucy.swri.edu/DonaldjohansonImageGallery.html#Stereograms | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Cent
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Today, NASA’s #LucyMission will fly by the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as a final dress rehearsal for Lucy’s main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Follow the encounter play-by-play today with @NASASolarSystem on X or Instagram stories. | NASA Solar System Exploration
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NASA’s #LucyMission captured its first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson. Lucy will pass by the asteroid on April 20 before heading to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. https://go.nasa.gov/4gY9DK6 | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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💎 Lights. Camera. Lucy. The stage is set for our #LucyMission to launch to the ancient Trojan asteroids on Oct. 16. Live coverage at 5:00 a.m. EDT (09:00 UTC) Liftoff targeted for 5:34 a.m. EDT (09:34 UTC) Watch with us here and on NASA TV: nasa.gov/live | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA's Lucy mission caught some views of four of the asteroids it will fly by in 2027 and 2028. Lucy is just more than a year into a 12-year voyage that entails close observation of nine of Jupiter’s Trojans, the first space mission ever to visit them. Learn more HERE>> https://go.nasa.gov/43tVEpR | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Lucy, meet sky. Congratulations to our incredible Lucy team and our mission partners at NASA Goddard and Southwest Research Institute. Learn more about this mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids ➡️ https://lmt.co/3aJjJPl | Lockheed Martin
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🌟 On Dec. 22 a star will blink out momentarily, visible by telescope from parts of southern Africa. The culprit? Trojan asteroid and smallest Lucy mission target Polymele passing in front of it! When an asteroid crosses in front of a star, scientists call that an “occultation.” #LucyMission scientists watch occultations from Earth to help measure the width of their Trojan asteroid targets to a precision of several hundred feet, or a couple hundred meters, and to ascertain their shapes. This inf
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Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 From an ancient fossil to a NASA mission, Lucy continues to inspire the quest to better understand our origins. Lucy’s flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson will be the first time NASA sends a spacecraft to a planetary body named after a living person. In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the 3.2 million year old fossilized skeleton — called “Lucy” — of a human ancestor, rewriting the textbooks on human evolution. Like Johanson, the #LucyMission
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Launching in late 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojan asteroids. These are a population of small bodies that are left over from the formation of the solar system. They lead or follow Jupiter in their orbit around the Sun, and they may tell us about the origins of organic materials on Earth. Lucy will fly by and carry out remote sensing on six different Trojan asteroids and will study surface geology, surface color and composition, asteroid interiors/bulk properties,
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NASA announced two new missions for the 2020s. The Lucy mission will study Trojan asteroids captured by Jupiter's gravity and the Psyche mission will study an asteroid belt object (16 Psyche) that's composed of metallic iron and nickel. Credit NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://goo.gl/KACsCz | Space.com
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Our #LucyMission is right on target! 🎯 The Lucy spacecraft is less than a month away from zooming past asteroid Donaldjohanson in its next asteroid encounter. In this time-lapse, Lucy closes the distance to the asteroid from almost 45 million miles to 15 million miles. Lucy's camera, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)'s L'LORRI (Lucy Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) instrument, is dialed in and focused for April 20th's encounter! Learn more & follow Lucy's journey: https://science.nasa.gov/b
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. #nasa #mission #inergency #asteroids
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