NASA's Lucy mission, launched on October 16.10.21, XNUMX, is surveying the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids that orbit the Sun along with Jupiter, for the first time. In this artist's impression (not to scale), the Lucy spacecraft flies near Eurydice, one of six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

NASA's Lucy mission, launched on October 16.10.21, XNUMX, is surveying the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids that orbit the Sun along with Jupiter, for the first time. In this artist's impression (not to scale), the Lucy spacecraft flies near Eurydice, one of six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

NASA's Lucy mission, launched on October 16.10.21, XNUMX, is surveying the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids that orbit the Sun along with Jupiter, for the first time. In this artist's impression (not to scale), the Lucy spacecraft flies near Eurydice, one of six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Credit: Southwest Research Institute