NASA made a big launch today for an important mission that it has been preparing for a long time. The Lucy spacecraft will orbit Jupiter to study asteroids and shed light on the formation of our Solar System.
Although our focus has been on manned lunar missions and developments on Mars in recent years, scientists have their eyes set on a completely different corner of our Solar System. With an important mission that has been under preparation for a long time, NASA, orbit of Jupiter sending a spacecraft.
Lucy The spacecraft named after a long journey to Jupiter’s orbit will begin to study the surrounding asteroids here. task in total 12 years it will last. During this time, Lucy is expected to study two separate groups of asteroids orbiting Jupiter.
Questions about the formation of the Solar System will be answered:
The data that Lucy will obtain from the asteroids she will examine will allow scientists to obtain important information about how the Solar System was formed. NASA scientists, who conveyed that asteroids are the remnants of the formation of planets, said that the examination of these objects To the early evolution of the Solar System and he thinks it will provide important data on the formation of planets.
Launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force base in Florida with the Atlas-V rocket carried out. Lucy’s journey will take quite a long time, and her first asteroid rendezvous is scheduled for April 2025. Then, investigations will continue until 2033. In this process, Lucy will examine 7 separate asteroids in total.
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The spacecraft will finally study two asteroids, Patroclus and Menoetius, in 2033. These asteroids are the largest asteroids on the list. Total travel distance during Lucy’s tenure with this final review in 2033 6 billion km will exceed.