Nasa’s asteroid exploration mission Lucy ready to launch – follow live

By Adnan Saidi

Watch live as Nasa’s asteroid exploration mission Lucy launches in Florida

Nasa is launching a new asteroid mission today to study two large clusters of space rocks around Jupiter, with hopes that the spacecraft’s work will shed light on some of the mysteries of our solar system.

The Lucy mission, named after a fossilised human ancestor whose skeleton gave insight into human evolution, is set to explore a record-breaking number of asteroids over the next 12 years.

Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which have been described as “the fossils of planet formation”, could help to reveal information about how our solar system’s planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they ended up in their current configuration.

NASA has said that no other single mission has been designed to visit as many different objects independently orbiting the sun in the history of space exploration.

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Watch live as Nasa’s asteroid exploration mission Lucy launches in Florida

Nasa’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid belts is set to lift off within minutes from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning.

The mission marks the most extensive asteroid exploration by Nasa to date – and hopes to gather data that will offer new insights into the early formation of the solar system.

You can watch the launch live below:

Watch live as Nasa’s asteroid exploration mission Lucy launches in Florida

Nasa’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid belts is lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday (16 October), as it seeks to explore a swarm of asteroids that orbit the Sun near the gas giant Jupiter.The Lucy mission marks the most extensive asteroid exploration by Nasa to date – and hopes to gather data that will offer new insights into the early formation of the solar system.Sign up to our free newsletters by clicking here

Conrad Duncan16 October 2021 10:30

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Conrad Duncan16 October 2021 10:21

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Adnan Saidi