{"id":55798,"date":"2021-10-18T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T05:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55798"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:38:59","slug":"nasa-launches-lucy-mission-to-study-the-jupiter-trojan-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nasa-launches-lucy-mission-to-study-the-jupiter-trojan-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA launches Lucy Mission to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US space agency&nbsp;<strong>NASA<\/strong>&nbsp;has launched a first-of-its-kind mission called&nbsp;\u2018<strong>Lucy Mission<\/strong>\u2018&nbsp;to study&nbsp;<strong>Jupiter\u2019s Trojan asteroids.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith Lucy, we\u2019re going to eight never-before-seen asteroids in 12 years with a single spacecraft,\u201d said Tom Statler, Lucy project scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cThis is a fantastic opportunity for discovery as we probe into our solar system\u2019s distant past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lucy mission will mark NASA\u2019s first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids. The Lucy probe was launched on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s Trojan asteroids are two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of the primordial material that formed the solar system\u2019s outer planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US space agency&nbsp;NASA&nbsp;has launched a first-of-its-kind mission called&nbsp;\u2018Lucy Mission\u2018&nbsp;to study&nbsp;Jupiter\u2019s Trojan asteroids. \u201cWith Lucy, we\u2019re going to eight never-before-seen asteroids in 12 years with a single spacecraft,\u201d said Tom Statler, Lucy project scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cThis is a fantastic opportunity for discovery as we probe into our solar system\u2019s distant past.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[2090,123],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-55798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-lucy-mission","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115422,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798\/revisions\/115422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55798"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=55798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}