The Lucy spacecraft captured an image of the lunar surface on October 16, 2022, while it was about 6.5 hours away from it.
A report published by NASA on its website states that the image while “Lucy” is between the Earth and the moon, 160,000 miles (260,000 km) from the moon, so it shows a perspective familiar to Earth observers and is used to photograph the “Photographer” Tool. High resolution “grayscale” Lucy, provided and maintained by the Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Applied Physics.
The image is an 800 mile (1,200 km) wide spot near the center of the last quarter moon. Several well-known craters, including the relatively last Arzachel crater, can be seen to the left of the center, and a prominent fissure called the straight wall that cuts through the lava plains can be seen to the lower left of the center.
Created by combining ten separate 2ms exposures in the same scene to maximize image quality, each pixel has a sharpness of approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.8 miles).
And “Lucy” is a NASA space probe, which has embarked on a 12-year journey to study 8 different asteroids, visit the main asteroid belt and 7 of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which are asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around to the sun and orbits before or behind the planet. The probe will fly close to asteroids and the mission will cost $ 981 million.
