Lucy travels in search of extraterrestrial life ... to a Trojan asteroid near Jupiter
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NASA's Lucy travels to Trojan Asteroid, a group of asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter. Lucy flew the Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday. Lucy travels in search of extraterrestrial life with a cover that features the words of the Beatles and others. Lucy may have been able to discover how the solar system formed 457 billion years ago.
Lucy went to target the Trojan asteroids known as the Jupiter children. There are two groups of Trojan asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter. These Trojan asteroids are thought to have originated during the birth of the planets in our solar system.
NASA's $ 1 billion mission to Lucy is to get a closer look at eight of these Trojan asteroids. The Lucy spacecraft is named after a human fossil found in Afar, Ethiopia in 1974. The human fossil is estimated to be about 32 million years old.
There is a reason behind naming this fossil Lucy. The fossil was discovered by anthropologist Donald Johansson. The day before the landmark discovery, he was listening to the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. That's why Joansson named the fossil Lucy.
NASA's Lucy Trojan will orbit the Sun six times as part of its mission to the asteroids. And then moving between Earth's orbits and Trojan asteroids for years Is expected to Like NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 missions, Lucy has a metal frame. Like the golden plates on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 that passed through the Solar System, Lucy's are indicators of the Earth and humans. Also in Lucy's metal frame. Researchers believe that this is not for aliens, but for future human interstellar missions.
In addition to Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the words of the Beatles are inscribed on Lucy's metal frame. In addition to this, a picture of our solar system on the day of Lucy's launch and Lucy's trajectory have been drawn.
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