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Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

DarkwavePunk

Fun factoid

As mentioned in the article the Lucy mission was named after the famous fossil, but that in turn was named after the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. One of the imaging devices on the probe has a beam-splitter made from a large man-made diamond. Cute.

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