The Lucy spacecraft took a magnificent photo of the Earth from nearly 400,000 miles away.
Lucy will be the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, so named because they orbit the sun at the same distance as Jupiter, both in front of the planet and behind it. They occupy two of the five Lagrange points of Jupiter, the only locations where a stable orbit so close to the gas giant is possible.
During its 12-year mission, Lucy is set to fly by nine asteroids, including one in the main asteroid belt, to study their composition, density and diversity. While that's an impressive number of asteroids to study in one go, there are as many as
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