Lucy Mission

The Lucy Mission is a NASA space exploration project launched to study Trojan asteroids, which are groups of space rocks sharing Jupiter’s orbit. These asteroids are remnants from the early solar system, offering clues about its formation. By visiting multiple Trojans over several years, Lucy aims to understand their composition, history, and what they reveal about the origins of our cosmic neighborhood. The mission utilizes a spacecraft equipped with scientific instruments, traveling hundreds of millions of miles to collect data that can inform our understanding of planetary development and the early solar system's evolution.