NASA's Lucy probe, a mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter, flew past Earth on October 16 and took some stunning photos of our planet and the moon before retreating to deep space.
sentence in iran. her lawyer said he d been told the news in a telephone call from the judicial authorities. mrs zaghari ratcliffe was given a second, one year sentence followed by a one year travel ban when her first five year sentence ended in march. she has been on parole in her parents home in tehran but could now be returned to jail. nasa has successfully launched a landmark mission to study asteroids nearjupiter, which could provide vital information about the evolution of the solar system. the rocket carrying the lucy spaceprobe, which will travel more than four billion miles over the next 12 years, took off from cape canaveral in florida. aru na iyengar reports. three, two, one, zero. the lucy probe is on its way tojupiter. lift off.
to go and new zealanders hoping to administer even more doses. phil. administer even more doses. phil, many thanks- a new nasa mission to study asteroids more than a billion miles from earth, gets underway this morning. over the next 12 years, the unmanned probe will examine space rocks around jupiter, in an effort to better understand how planets were formed. our science correspondent jonathan amos reports. this is a mission that will take us backin this is a mission that will take us back in time. nassar s lucy probable out old asteroids more than 1 billion miles from earth, circling the sign information with the giant planetjupiter. nasa s lucy probe. they call these ancient objects trojans, city sized lumps of rock that preserve the chemistry from the earliest days of the solar system. lucy will visit seven trojan asteroids over the course of the next 12 years, taking pictures and careful measurements to send back to
i m lindsey reiser. i m kendis gibson. we re at world headquarters in new york. space is cool. as we found out about an hour ago. we have big blue origin space news this week. this happened about 5:30 this morning eastern time. a lucy probe being beamed up into space near jupiter. okay. so what this is, it started its 4 billion mile journey that will take 12 years. while many networks are showing you this, the beginning, we have the exclusive on what exactly actual video on lucy and what it will do. here it is. don t sell what you can t deliver. it s going to visit some eight asteroids while previous probes just visited one. lucy will visit eight asteroids over the next 12 years. things that are considered prehistoric treasures. we ll see how the universe started. that s what happened within the last half hour. love it. cool to watch.