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Lucy's Journey: Episode 2 - 'The Adventure Begins'

Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Published: September 16, 2021
Historical Date: September 16, 2021

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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