Lucy Mission Trajectory 'Over-the-Shoulder' Views
- Visualizations by:
- Kel Elkins
- Produced by:
- Dan Gallagher
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This visualization is a view from the Lucy spacecraft as it travels through the solar system, represented in a Jupiter-rotating reference frame. In this reference frame, Jupiter appears fixed in space. This visualization spans from launch through the flyby of the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson. (Part 1 of 3)
Lucy will launch in October 2021 and, with boosts from Earth's gravity, will complete a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids — a Main Belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojans, the last two members of a “two-for-the-price-of-one” binary system. Lucy’s complex path will take it to both clusters of Trojans and give us our first close-up view of all three major types of bodies in the swarms (so-called C-, P- and D-types).
These visualizations give an 'over-the-shoulder' view of Lucy as the spacecraft travels through the solar system.
This visualization is a view from the Lucy spacecraft as it travels through the solar system, represented in a Jupiter-rotating reference frame. This is a complete view of the entire mission, combining all three sections (parts 1-3) listed above into one visualization, including all asteroid flybys.
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Animators
- Jonathan North (KBRwyle)
- Michael Lentz (KBRwyle)
Visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA) [Lead]
Engineer
- Brian Sutter (Lockheed Martin)
Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle) [Lead]
Datasets used in this visualization
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