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Lucy's Journey: Episode 1

Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Published: November 20, 2020
Historical Date: November 20, 2020

Episode 1: Launch. Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first-ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.

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