Lucy is still millions of miles away from its rocky targets but has managed to peek at them from a distance.
That’s why the first views of the Trojan asteroids are a bit fuzzy, showing the asteroids as a moving speck of light against a dark background littered with stars. The four images show the different orientations of Lucy’s camera as it turned to capture each asteroid.
captured over a different period of time; images of Eurybates were taken over a span of six and a half hours, Polymele’s images were taken over about two and a half hours, Leucus was around two hours,The initial set of images are the first in a series of observations to measure how the Trojan asteroids reflect light when seen from a higher angle than ground-based observations, according to NASA.
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