NASA's Lucy Mission Extends: its Solar Arrays

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NASA's Lucy mission tests the deployment of its solar arrays in
the 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 its 12-year
odyssey through the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, breaking records
for a solar powered mission by traveling 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. More: nasa.gov/lucy Music: "CSI,"

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