{"id":118067,"date":"2021-01-05T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasas-first-mission-to-the-trojan-asteroids-integrates-its-second-scientific-instrument"},"modified":"2021-01-05T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:22:24","slug":"nasas-first-mission-to-the-trojan-asteroids-integrates-its-second-scientific-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasas-first-mission-to-the-trojan-asteroids-integrates-its-second-scientific-instrument","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-first-mission-to-the-trojan-asteroids-integrates-its-second-scientific-instrument2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L\u2019TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving two of the three instruments integrated onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spacecraft\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spacecraft<\/a> is an exciting milestone,\u201d said Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Lucy project manager from NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cThe L\u2019TES team is to be commended for their true dedication and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, leftover building blocks of the Solar System\u2019s outer planets orbiting the Sun at the distance of Jupiter. The mission takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor (called \u201cLucy\u201d by her discoverers) whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity\u2019s evolution. Likewise, the Lucy mission will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the birth of our solar system more than 4 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L\u2019TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. \u201cHaving two of the three instruments integrated onto the spacecraft is an exciting milestone,\u201d said Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Lucy project manager from NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cThe L\u2019TES [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}