From trips to Venus and Jupiter to investigations of asteroids and methane-soaked moons, the future of space exploration looks incredibly bright.
NASA’s Lucy probe launched in October 2021, and despite an annoying problem with its power-supplying solar array, which didn’t deploy fully after launch, the
. Lucy is currently en route to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids—two discernable clumps of asteroids that travel ahead and behind Jupiter along its orbital path around the Sun.Jupiter’s Trojans have been trapped in this configuration for billions of years, making them tantalizing targets for scientific investigation. As potential precursors to planetary formation, the Trojans could shed new light on the ways in which organic materials and water were delivered to Earth.
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