Liora Wilkins
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Studying the Early Days of the Solar System: What NASA's Recent Lucy Mission Might Teach Us
Asteroids have fascinated humans for thousands of years. In the media, they're typically portrayed as the "bombs" of space, so to speak, the catalysts in events of large-scale destruction. The end of the dinosaurs and the moon's dented surface are two examples that might come to mind. To astrophysicists, however, they have another significance: they have been around since the dawn of the solar system, and their location and composition can tell us a lot about the solar system's beginnings. NASA's recent Lucy mission was launched in an aim to learn more about the dawn of the solar system by analyzing these rocky remnants.
By Liora Wilkins3 years ago in Earth