Jupiter's Lucy Mission To Unlock Mysteries Of The Solar System
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Jupiter is by far the largest and most massive planet in the solar system. And as befits even the mightiest of gods, it surrounds itself with something of an impressive "court of miracles," consisting of rings, 79 moons buzzing around it, comets and asteroids frequently sinking into its atmosphere, and... two swarms of asteroids preceding and following it in its orbit... the Trojan asteroids!
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Despite all that we have discovered about Jupiter, its moons, and even its wafer-thin rings, we know very little about the Trojans. Pioneers 10 and 11, the two Voyagers, Galileo and Juno have all returned a wealth of data on the Jovian system. Until now, however, the only way to study the Trojans has been from afar, with ground-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes.
But all that is about to change. In just a few days, a new Discovery-class robotic mission is scheduled to launch in 2021. The space probe will visit and explore six different Trojans of Jupiter and "in passing" also an asteroid in the main belt.
So little is known about the Trojans that the data that the probe will send us will surely revolutionize our understanding of their origin and that of the entire solar system.
We're used to thinking that the objects that populate our solar system all revolve around the sun, each of them neatly in its own orbit. But there is one class of objects, the "Trojan" asteroids, that prefers to go their own way in good company.
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