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NASA to Launch a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
The spacecraft is designed to study clusters of asteroids along Jupiter’s orbital path, known as the Trojan swarms, as it seeks to answer questions about the origins of the solar system and how life might have emerged on Earth.
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“Hello, and welcome to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. You’re looking at a live view of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying Lucy.” “Lucy will profoundly change your understanding of planetary evolution in our solar system. One spacecraft, seven Trojan asteroids, one main belt asteroids, in 12 years.” “We’re going to study the geology, surface composition, bulk properties, and we’re going to search for satellites around these objects. I’ll give you a flavor for some of our science investigations. One of them is to map the craters across our surfaces, the surface of the Trojan asteroids. We’re going to look for craters smaller than a football field, about 70 yards across. Additionally, we’ve designed a science investigation to look and see the composition inside fresh craters. Now, for astronomers and scientists, fresh doesn’t mean recently really in human timescales, it’s craters that are less than 100 million years old.”
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