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24 Oct. 2023 8:01 a.m.
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Since NASA’s Lucy spacecraft The United States took the first images of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Sept. 3. The Lucy spacecraft has now traveled more than 54 million kilometers. It is approximately 7.6 million kilometers from this small asteroid. However, as Dinkinesh continues to orbit the Sun, The spacecraft still has nearly 25 million kilometers to travel to meet the asteroid again on November 1.
During the past month The Lucy crew saw the target asteroid light up as the spacecraft approached. They also saw subtle changes in brightness that correspond to the asteroid’s rotational period. The team used images collected by Lucy’s L’LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) camera that takes high-resolution images in the visible wavelength. to refine knowledge about the relative positions of spacecraft and asteroids By these things guided the ship towards confrontation Face to face with asteroid Dinkinesh in order to take pictures and send those pictures back to Earth
The Lucy spacecraft is the 13th mission in the Discovery Program of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Credit : NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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