The images, showing the orbs separated by the brooding darkness of space, were taken as the Lucy spacecraft came by for a gravitational assist.
millisecond exposures of the same frame to increase its quality, with each pixThis mosaic of the Moon was created from five separate one millisecond exposures, with each pixel representing about 0.7 miles . The uppermost area of the image was taken at an earlier time than the bottomThe image was taken about eight hours after Lucy’s flyby of Earth, when the spacecraft was around 140,000 miles away from the Moon.
Flying between the Earth and Moon, the spacecraft capturedountain rangeAfter Lucy bid farewell to Earth, its new trajectory placed it on a two-year orbit around the Sun. In two years, Lucy will return to Earth for yet another gravity assist. From there, the spacecraft will still have about three years to go before reaching its first target, asteroid Donaldjohanson.
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