NASA's spacecraft captures stunning glimpses of asteroid targets.
NASA's Lucy probe, launched in October 2021, has captured its first images of the asteroids it was sent to investigate, including Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus. These asteroids belong to the Trojan swarms, a group of space rocks that share the orbit of Jupiter. Lucy's mission is to study nine of them, from both the Greek and Trojan camps, as well as two asteroids in the Main Belt that sits between Jupiter and Mars, during its 12-year mission. The data obtained will help scientists understand more about how the Solar System formed.