Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids

Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans - two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet formation, trapped by Jupiter’s gravity at the dawn of the solar system. Now, NASA is sending Lucy on a winding, twelve-year-long path to visit one main-belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojans. Lucy will provide the first up-close look at these mysterious objects, helping scientists to better understand the evolution of the solar system.
Learn more about Lucy’s path to eight asteroids: solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/200...
Music: “Ocean Simulation” and “The Sequencer Paradox” by Laetitia Frenod; “The Chess Game” by David James Elliott and Martin Gratton; “Tale of Time” by Markus Gleissner, via Universal Production Music
Asteroid Ryugu imagery provided by: JAXA Hayabusa 2
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
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Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer
Ned Barbee (Lockheed Martin): Producer
Cathy Olkin (SwRI): Interviewee
Brian Sutter (Lockheed Martin): Interviewee
Lauren Duda (Lockheed Martin): Interviewer
Chris Tucker (Lockheed Martin): Videographer
Adam Mattivi (Lockheed Martin): Videographer
John Caldwell (AIMM): Videographer
Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Lead Animator
Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator
Michael Lentz (KBRwyle): Animator
Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle): Animator
Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC): Support
Katherine Kretke (SwRI): Support
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Support
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