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NASA is sending ‘Lucy’ to a mysterious celestial location – Inverse

NASA’s upcoming mission Lucy will send a small spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids that lie way beyond Earth’s orbit.

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Jupiter is a popular planet.
The gas giant has 79 confirmed moons orbiting around it, a system of dusty rings surrounding, and a gang of rocky bodies that follow its orbit around the Sun.
The Trojan asteroids are two such rocky bodies that lead and follow Jupiter, and they may have been accompanying the large planet for the past four billion years. Although the asteroid group is quite chummy with Jupiter, very little is known about them — as no spacecraft has ever made the journey to visit the…

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