Lucy Pre-Launch Guest Briefings
On October 15, 2021, one day before the NASA Lucy Spacecraft launched on its 12 year mission to the Trojan Asteroids, the Lucy team briefed the guests attending the launch about the mission.Guest...
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Lucy Activity Book
Learn about the Lucy Mission with this billingual English-Spanish activity book! Download the whole book or select pages.Lucy Activity BookFull version with color coverDownload PDFLucy Activity Book in...
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Watching a Lunar Eclipse
This Sunday the planets will align. Well, not actually the planets—the Sun, Earth and Moon will align and the Moon will pass into the shadow of the Earth. If the clouds cooperate, the entire...
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In the spring of 2021, the Lucy team first sent out a call for musicians to join together and create the ever-growing NASA Lucy Mission Soundscape. Since that time, members of the Lucy team have been...
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Discovering a Satellite
By Freya Sexton, Lucy InternWhen a group of astronomers set out to catch a glimpse of the shadow of one of Lucy’s targets, the Trojan asteroid Polymele, they had no idea that they were about to...
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First Earth Gravity Assist
On October 16, at 7:04am ET, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, will skim Earth’s atmosphere, passing only about 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the surface. As...
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Spot The Spacecraft
The Lucy spacecraft is flying by the Earth, and you may be able to #SpotTheSpacecraft! The Lucy trajectory during the Earth flyby seen from above the Earth’s North pole, a red dot every 10 minutes....
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A New Perspective on the Trojan Asteroids
The Lucy spacecraft took is first images of the Trojan asteroids in late March 2023. Animated gifs showing Lucy's first look at the Trojan asteroid from a distance of over 330 million miles. Credit:...
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Spotting A Satellite
On the evening of February 3, 2023, over 100 telescopes deployed across two continents hoping to catch an otherwise unremarkable star as it blinked out for a fraction of a second.Scientists working for...
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Dinkinesh Encounter
This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite, Selam, as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), one of the most detailed images...
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