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Hamburger 24 Oct 2023 08:01 AM Share news column 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, and is approximately 7.6 million kilometers from the small asteroid. However, as Dinkinesh continues its orbit around the sun, The spacecraft still has nearly 25 million kilometers to travel to rendezvous with the asteroid on November 1, which is coming last 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 regarding 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 the world. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center’s Discovery Program. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center divmargin:0 -15px ;@media (max-width:767.98px).css-x9zhmpwidth:100vw;max-width:inherit;margin:30px -15px;]]>
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Lucy Spacecraft Captures Groundbreaking Images of Asteroid Dinkinesh: Exploring the Depths of Space
