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The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.
NASA's Lucy probe will arrive at its first target — an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter named 52246 Donaldjohanson, after the discoverer of the Lucy skeleton — in 2025. This is not a Trojan asteroid and is more like a rehearsal flyby for the Lucy mission.
The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.
When NASA’s Lucy mission took to the sky (SYFY WIRE was there to see it), it was both venturing out to a new frontier for space exploration and echoing an ode to an extremely old skeleton.
NASA’s Lucy mission launched, but what if you could take a ride on the spacecraft all the way to the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit? Read on.