Spaceship Lucy

Asteroid Donaldjohansson as captured by Lucy's L'LORRI camera. This is one of the most detailed images Lucy has taken during its flyby. It was taken on April 20.4.25, 1,100 from a distance of about XNUMX km. The image has been sharpened and processed to improve contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

Lucy spacecraft captures ice cream cone-shaped asteroid

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Asteroid encounter reveals 150-million-year-old fracture: The Lucy spacecraft took stunning images of the asteroid Donaldjohansson, revealing it to be a pair in contact, in the unusual shape of an "ice cream cone" with two spheres.
Lucy will study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids – considered "fossils of the planet formation process." Credit: NASA

The Lucy spacecraft is preparing for a fascinating encounter tomorrow (Sunday) with a mysterious space relic

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The Lucy spacecraft will make a close flyby of the asteroid Donald Johanson on April 20, a systems practice before arriving at Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
Lucy will study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids - thought to be "fossils of planet formation". Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Lucy in cruise mode - the problematic solar array is open between 75% and 95%

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Lucy was launched on October 17, 2021 on its mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids to gain new insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago
This figure depicts the Lucy spacecraft in the vicinity of the Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus and its companion Mannotius (double asteroid). Lucy will be the first mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids - ancient remnants of the outer solar system trapped in the giant planet's orbit. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez

NASA launched the Lucy spacecraft to fly by eight "Trojan" asteroids

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Lucy will fly up to 400 km from the surface of its targets - asteroids that are in sync with the planet Jupiter, and will use its instruments and large antennas to study their geology,
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