{"id":4311,"date":"2021-10-16T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2021-10-22T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T19:52:23","slug":"lucy-launch-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/lucy-launch-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCY Launch a Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4313\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/\/LUCY-Launch-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-4313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/LUCY-Launch-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/LUCY-Launch-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The space probe embarked on a 12-year mission to study two clusters of asteroids near Jupiter, known as the Trojan swarms, in an effort to unlock clues about the origins of our solar system.<br \/>Credit: Steve Nesius\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The big news is that NASA&#8217;s Lucy mission launched successfully on Saturday, Oct. 16. Faculty member <strong>Josh Emery<\/strong> is a senior member of the science team, and PhD student <strong>Audrey Martin<\/strong> is involved as well.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey was featured on a recent NASA <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/episode-8-we-asked-a-nasa-scientist-what-are-the-trojan-asteroids\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ask a scientist: What are the Trojan Asteroids?<\/a><\/em> as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/askscience\/comments\/q6h6ch\/askscience_ama_series_were_scientists_and\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit Ask Me Anything<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news is that NASA&#8217;s Lucy mission launched successfully on Saturday, Oct. 16. Faculty member Josh Emery is a senior member of the science team, and PhD student Audrey Martin is involved as well. Audrey was featured on a recent NASA Ask a scientist: What are the Trojan Asteroids? as well as a Reddit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[205,206],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-lucy","tag-trojan-asteroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}