Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
- Author
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Published
- Tue 22 Apr 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lab-notes/nasa-lucy-mission-donaldjohanson-asteroid-planetary-science/105179202
Somewhere out past Mars in the early hours of Easter Monday, a space probe called Lucy whizzed by an asteroid named Donaldjohanson.
Lucy then sent back images showing Donaldjohanson is about five kilometres wide and shaped like a peanut.
It's one of a handful of asteroids on Lucy's 12-year itinerary.
So what does the billion-dollar mission hope to achieve?
