Lucy the Spacecraft
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Lucy is a spacecraft launched on October 16, 2021. Her mission is to explore the "fossils of planet formation": the Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are time capsules of the birth of our solar system from over 4 billion years ago.
image from SciTechDaily
Lucy is named for the 3.2 million-year-old fossil. Here is a video to
watch about the Lucy mission:
