Lucy Brings Time Capsules for Future Earthlings, There’s Queen’s Quote

Suara.com – Engineer NASA put a time capsule on the spaceship Lucy last weekend, which was meant to be taken and interpreted by future astro-archaeologists.

The time capsule is a plaque containing messages from Nobel Laureates and musicians, as well as a description of the configuration of the solar system on October 16, 2021, the spacecraft’s launch date.

Like the Pioneer and Voyager probes, Lucy will carry a message to whoever can eventually intercept the craft.

The time capsule will probably be taken by future humans, as it includes the words of a Nobel laureate, a winning poet, and a musician.

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The plaque was installed at Lucy in Colorado last July 9, where the plane is undergoing final preparations ahead of its scheduled fall launch.

The plaque contains quotes from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., writers and poets including Orhan Pamuk, Louise Glück, Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, and Rita Dove, scientists Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan, and musicians including the four Beatles guitarists and Queen and astronomer Brian May.

The messages talk about hope, love, heaven, cultural memory, and eternity.

Lucy’s mission focuses on the Trojan asteroids, a group of space rocks orbiting the Sun outside the asteroid belt rings, taking turns leading Jupiter or pursuing the gas giant in its own solar orbit.

Trojan asteroids are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet and are often a by-product of the formation of that planet.

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Jupiter has a Trojan phalanx, but Lucy targets only seven of them to fly by for 12 years.

The asteroid is interesting because it is thought to have formed in the early solar system, just as the Lucy fossil helps paleoanthropologists understand human evolution.

The hope is that the Lucy spacecraft will tell NASA about the evolution of the solar system.

Lucy is a product of the Discovery Program, a NASA initiative that produced the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus.

Lucy’s mission will end in 2033, around the same time the spacecraft reaches Venus.

But, Lucy will be bouncing between the Trojans and Earth for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

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