Lucy spacecraft discovers Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

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Lucy spacecraft discovers Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first images of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids using its highest resolution imager, L’LORRI. The four asteroids, Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus, are part of two large groups of rocky bodies that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. The images will help NASA decide on exposure times to use for Lucy’s close-up observations of the asteroids. Lucy is expected to travel over 4 billion miles during its 12-year mission, during which the probe will visit 10 asteroids, including a tiny main belt asteroid known as 1999 VD57.

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