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Lucy's Journey: Episode 7 - "Earth Gravity Assist"

Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Published: October 11, 2022

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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