NASA’s Lucy rocket caught a picture of the Earth on October 15, 2022, and a picture of the Earth and the Moon on October 13, as a piece of an instrument alignment succession.
NASA’s Lucy shuttle caught a picture (which has been trimmed) of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, as a piece of an instrument alignment grouping a ways off of 380,000 miles (620,000 km). The upper left of the picture incorporates a perspective on Hadar, Ethiopia, home to the 3.2 million-year-old human precursor fossil for which the rocket was named.
Lucy is the principal mission to investigate the Jupiter Trojan space rocks, an old population of space rock “fossils” that circle around the Sun at a similar distance as Jupiter. To arrive at these far-off space rocks, the Lucy shuttle’s direction incorporates three Earth gravity points, helping to support it on its excursion to these mysterious space rocks.
The picture was taken with Lucy’s Terminal Following Camera (T2CAM) framework, a couple of indistinguishable cameras that are liable for following the space rocks during Lucy’s rapid experiences. The T2CAM framework was planned, constructed, and tried by Malin Space Science Frameworks; Lockheed Martin coordinated the T2CAMs onto the Lucy rocket and worked them.
On October 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy shuttle caught this picture of the Earth and the Moon from a distance of 890,000 miles (1.4 million km). The picture was taken as a feature of an instrument alignment grouping as the shuttle moved toward Earth for its first of three Earth gravity assists. These Earth flybys give Lucy the speed expected to arrive at the Trojan space rocks—little bodies that circle the Sun at a similar distance as Jupiter. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRIO On October 13, 2022,
NASA’s Lucy rocket caught a picture of the Earth and the Moon from a distance of 890,000 miles (1.4 million km). The picture was taken as a feature of an instrument alignment grouping as the rocket moved toward Earth for its first of three Earth gravity assists. These Earth flybys give Lucy the speed expected to arrive at the Trojan space rocks—little bodies that circle the Sun at a similar distance as Jupiter. On its long-term venture, Lucy will fly by a record-breaking number of space rocks and study their variety, searching for signs to more readily grasp the development of the nearby planet group.
The picture was taken with Lucy’s Terminal Following Camera (T2CAM) framework, a couple of indistinguishable cameras that are liable for following the space rocks during Lucy’s high velocity experiences. The T2CAM framework was planned, assembled, and tried by Malin Space Science Frameworks; Lockheed Martin incorporated the T2CAMs onto the Lucy space apparatus and worked them.
Provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
