NASA launches Lucy Mission to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids
- The US space agency NASA has launched a first-of-its kind mission called ‘Lucy Mission‘ to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
- The mission life of Lucy is 12-year, during which the spacecraft will fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids to study about solar system’s evolution. These will include one main-belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
- The Lucy mission will mark NASA’s first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids.
- The Lucy probe was launched on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16, 2021.
- Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids are two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed the solar system’s outer planets.
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- Lucy Mission launched by which country?
- Lucy mission will study which asteroid?
- Trojan asteroids orbit which planet?
- Mission life of Lucy?
- Name of the mission launched by NASA to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
- How many asteroids will be studied during NASA’s Lucy mission?