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Lucy mission marks 5 years of discoveries

Source: Phys.org · Published 20 Oct 2026, 11:00

On Oct. 16, 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft began its journey to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids with an early morning launch. Now less than a year away from the first-ever close-up of a Trojan, the Southwest Research Institute–led mission has already made several findings during its first five years.

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