NASA’s Lucy Mission Extends its Solar Arrays |UNIVERSIANIST

NASA's Lucy mission tests it's deployment of its solar arrays in thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin space in Littleton, Colorado.Each of the two circular arrays is nearly 24 feet (7.3 m) wide.These arrays will power Lucy on it's 12-year odssey through the Jupiter Trojan astroids, breaking record for a solar powered mission by travelling 530 million miles (853 million km) from the sun.these large arrays will capture the sunlight needed to power the spacecraft as it travels through deep space.