NASA is sending a spacecraft on a 12-year journey to explore swarms of asteroids around Jupiter

As early as October 16th, NASA is launching the Lucy spacecraft into deep space on an Atlas V rocket. The probe will spend the next 12 years traveling to various Trojan asteroids, which orbit along the path of Jupiter.

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