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NASA found another target for Lucy
(ORDO NEWS) — On its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, the Lucy probe will visit an additional target, according to NASA. The Lucy expedition launched into space in October 2021. Its goal is to study Trojan asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit. Until recent changes, the expedition plan looked like this: on the way to the L₄ point in 2025, the probe should fly by the Donaldjohanson object (52246 Donaldjohanson), located in…
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Lucy continues to stabilize its solar array ahead of gravity assist
(ORDO NEWS) — In the first half of 2022, the NASA team continued to work on a solution to the problem with the solar array of the Lucy spacecraft, launched in October 2021. Lucy is the first mission of its kind to visit multiple asteroids at Jupiter’s L4 and L5 Lagrange points. Lucy is currently on standby ahead of its first Earth flyby in October 2022. Lucy’s sister mission, Psyche,…
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Lucy filmed a lunar eclipse from 100 million kilometers away
(ORDO NEWS) — The Lucy spacecraft captured a video of a solar lunar eclipse. The video was posted on the YouTube channel of the Southwestern Research Institute. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, blocking out the light. In this case, the Moon can acquire red hues due to light that has passed through the atmosphere. Now Lucy has captured what a lunar…