2021 October 20 - Lucy Launches to Eight Asteroids
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2021-10-20

In today's image, we see the launch of the Lucy spacecraft as it travels out to the orbit of Jupiter to study the Trojan asteroids which share Jupiter's orbit. 

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