hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead here on cnn newsroom, air-raid sirens going off in kyiv this morning. civilians warned to seek shelter as russian drones target ukraine s capital. more never before seen video of the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. some candidates are already sowing doubt about the integritiy of the upcoming election. plus it s now been a month of tense often violent nationwide protests in iran, and now the iranian president is accusing the united states of inciting chaos. thanks for being with us. we are following developments out of ukraine where explosions continue to be heard in central kyiv. the first blast came just hours ago, and one official says russia is now attacking the capital with kamikaze drones. cnn s clarissa ward is in kyiv and updated us on the situation just a short time ago. reporter: this started about 6:45 this morning. the seco
named donald johansson. she ll then travel to the trojan asteroids all named after the heroes of homer s iliad. the power what lucy can do we can construct all these comparisons between the different varieties and diversity we see in the trojans, the unexpected diversity, the different colors, the different collisional histories. it s really a repository of fossils, as we like to say, of things that happened at the earliest stages of solar system evolution. reporter: the spacecraft a little more than 14 meters from tip to tip is powered by two giant solar arrays that will expand outwards like chinese folding fans. they ll carry lucy farther away from the sun than any other solar powered spacecraft. lucy will never return to earth but she won t be the last to visit the asteroids.
of a beam splitter assembly. after about three and a half years from now, after making a few flybys of earth, she s expected to reach her first objective, an asteroid named donald johansson. she ll then travel to the trojan asteroids, all named after the heroes of homer s illead. web construct all of these comparisons between the variety and diversity we expect in the trojans, the unexpected diversity, the different colors, the different collisional histories. it s a repository of fossils of things that happened at the earliest stages of solar system evolution. the spacecraft, a little more than 14 meters from tip to tip, is powered by two giant solar arrays that will expand outward like chinese folding fans. they ll carry lucy far away from the sun than any other
asteroids. the power of what lucy is able to do by having so many targets, we can construct all these comparisons between all the different varieties and the diversity that we see in the trojans, the unexpected diversity, the different colors, the different collisional histories. it s really a repository of fossils, as we like to say, of things that happened at the earliest stages of solar system evolution. reporter: the spacecraft, a little more than 14 meters from tip to tip, is powered by two giant solar arrays that will expand outward like chinese folding fans. they ll carry lucy farther away from the sun than any other solar-powered spacecraft. lucy will never return to earth, but she won t be the last to visit the asteroids. nasa plans to send more. china and russia are teaming up on an asteroid mission in 2024. and the uae in 2028. kristin fisher, cnn.