
Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Lightsail - A Space Odyssey
Voyager yo visited all these planets and gave us great images to help you understand what these large bodies an solar system looked like. But our targets are so much smaller, so it's so much harder ver a big planet universean asteroi that at most as little oer a hundred kolometrs across. To our smallest ones, as hal was saying palemelius, twentyeth or so kilometers across. And we want to make sure we get just to the right aim point to be able to doti this careful corography of actually imaging those asteroids. So it is a much finer window that we need to hit to image a small asteroid versus a large planet. Stick around
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