Lucy - NASA Science
Lucy - NASA Science
Dec 5, 2017
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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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Our #LucyMission just caught its first glimpse of some its very-distant destinations, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Lucy launched in 2021 and its targets are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft. Lucy won't fly by these asteroids until 2027 & 2028. Space is big y’all. These images are roughly equivalent to a camera in Brooklyn snapping a picture of a basketball in Los Angeles. Though the asteroids are still just single points of light in these images,
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Our #LucyMission just caught its first glimpse of some its very-distant destinations, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Lucy launched in 2021 and its targets are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft. Lucy won't fly by these asteroids until 2027 & 2028. Space is big y’all. These images are roughly equivalent to a camera in Brooklyn snapping a picture of a basketball in Los Angeles. Though the asteroids are still just single points of light in these images,
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NASA’s Lucy Launches on 12-Year Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
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NASA’s Lucy Launches on 12-Year Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
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NASA's Lucy Mission: A Journey to the Young Solar System - NASA Science
NASA's Lucy Mission: A Journey to the Young Solar System - NASA Science
Oct 18, 2021
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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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NASA launches spacecraft 'Lucy' to explore ancient asteroids, 'fossils'
Oct 17, 2021
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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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The Lucy spacecraft launched into the sky (with a diamond 💎) at 5:34am ET to begin its journey to the unexplored Trojan asteroids! By studying these planetary fossils, we hope to discover secrets of the early solar system: http://nasa.gov/live | NASA's Kennedy Space 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 Spacecraft Prepares to Swing by Earth - NASA
Sep 30, 2023
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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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Launch of NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids (Official NASA Broadcast)
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Lucy's Journey
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We ❤️ Lucy Launching in late 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojan asteroids, a group of large space rocks that are left over from the formation of the solar system. They lead or follow Jupiter in their orbit around the Sun, and may tell us about the origins of organic materials on Earth. www.nasa.gov/lucy 📺 👇 | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA’s LUCY Probe Sent Back a Terrifying Signal
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NASA launched Lucy in 2021, beginning a 12-year mission to explore what astronomers call "Trojan asteroids." Capturing moments like this one are crucial to the mission. | NOVA l PBS
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Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
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NASA's Lucy Mission: First Spacecraft to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids 4 Billion Year Old Time Capsules
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Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 “Lucy helped us understand how humans got to be human. What knowledge can be gained from the Trojan asteroids to understand how our solar system came to be?” 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 th
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Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids
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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 Science Live: Launching Lucy to the Trojan Asteroids
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Lucy Trajectory in Sun-Jupiter Rotating Reference Frame, Trojan Asteroid Mission
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Live: Nasa's asteroid exploration mission Lucy launches in Florida
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Nasa sends Lucy probe on 12-year mission to explore asteroids around Jupiter
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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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