NASA launches 'Lucy' probe to investigate Jupiter space rocks

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NASA launched a spacecraft on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids for the first time on Saturday

  Crew Dragon spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral of Florida, the United States

'Lucy' on a mission to explore asteroids and gathering new insights into the solar system formation

~ The Atlas V rocket responsible for propelling the probe took off at 5:34 am local time (0934 GMT) from Cape Canaveral.
~ Named after an primitive fossil of a pre-human ancestor, Lucy will become the first solar-powered spacecraft to set forth so far from the sun, and will observe more asteroids than any probe before it - eight in all.

~ Lucy\'s first experience will be in 2025 with space rock Donald johanson in the Principle Belt, among Mars and Jupiter. The space rock is named after the pioneer of the Lucy fossil.
~ Between the year of 2027 and 2033, it will experience seven Trojan space rocks - five in the multitude that drives Jupiter, and two in the multitude that trails the gas gaint.

~ Lucy will fly by its target site within 250 miles of their surfaces, and utilize its locally available instruments and enormous antenna to research their topography, including structure, mass, thickness and volume.

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