Lucy asteroid probe forced to limp on without full solar array

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will have to soldier on to reach eight asteroids within Jupiter's orbit – a journey expected to last 12 years – with a glitch in one of its solar arrays for now. Launched in October last year, the probe failed to fully latch one of its two solar arrays properly shortly after it left Earth. The panels, …

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It's full of... Drugs!

The 3.18-million-year-old Lucy was named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which the researchers listened to as they celebrated their remarkable find

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Re: It's full of... Drugs!

At 3.18 million years old I think this Lucy may predate them by a few years.