Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: IE Context: NASA’s Lucy mission has captured its first images of the Jupiter and Trojan asteroids using its high-resolution L’LORRI camera What are Trojan asteroids? Trojan asteroids are a group of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. There are two groups of Trojan asteroids, the “Greeks,” …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: NASA’s Lucy mission — set to explore a group of asteroids that follow behind and in front of Jupiter’s orbit — hit a snag recently when one of its solar arrays failed to unfurl. NASA will perform two steps over the next several months to …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: Eurybates is one of a handful of asteroids that Lucy will visit over the next 12 years. Recently, astronomers at Las Vegas were observing a star which appeared to briefly blink out because the asteroid Eurybates had passed in front of it. As Eurybates eclipsed …
GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: NASA has announced the launch of ‘Lucy’ mission. It will be launched next week. The spacecraft will fly by the Earth twice in order to use the planet’s gravitational field to assist it on its journey to the asteroids. About ‘Lucy’ Mission: This is NASA’s first …
