NASA’s investigation involves the second meeting of the eclipse
NASA, who sent the Lucy Space vessel into space, is aiming to explore many Trojan planets that share the Jupiter orbit around the sun. Lucy’s close approach to Donald Johanson, which is 4 km in diameter – is done in a few days.
Lucy Space probe before a eclipse
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A. Lucy Space Probe And and NASA It is six days and less than 80 million kilometers from the second meeting with space rock, Donaldjohanson is a small asteroid belt.
This next incident represents a comprehensive article for the main mission of Lucy in the next decade: the search for many Trojan planets that share the Jupiter orbit around the sun.
Lucy’s first meeting with a eclipse – the flyfish of Dinkish, the asteroid, the asteroid belt and her moon, seal, on November 1, 2023 – offered the team to the team to test the systems they develop during overflow.
Lucy’s largest approach to Donaldjohanson – 4 km in diameter – 960 km away on April 20.
About 30 minutes before her approach, Lucy guides to follow the asteroid trail, during which time her high profit is moving from the antenna to the ground, stopping communications.
Lucy Donaldjohanson, guided by your Follow -up system, runs automatically to focus on. In doing so, Lucy Dinkinesh can make a complex observation than what is used.
Sunlight needs care
Unlike Dinkish, Lucy Donald Johanson stops recognizing his delicate tools from severe sunlight 40 seconds before his close approach.
“If you are sitting on the asteroid of the Lucy Probe, I will have to look at the sun and save your eyes while looking to get out of the brightness. After Lucy goes through the asteroid, she will reverse our positions, so we have to protect our instruments the same way.”
These tools are designed to take photos of illumination items by 25 times weaker sunshine than Earth, so seeing the sun can hurt the cameras.
Fortunately, this is one of the seven eclipse meetings of Lucy with this complex geometry. During the meetings with Trojan, like Dinkinesh, the investigation meeting could collect data throughout the whole.
After a close approach, the spacecraft becomes “back” by turning its solar panels back to the sun. About an hour later, the probe restores communication with earth.
