NASA puts a touching video with the "Lucy Mission" and sends it to the mysterious "Trojan" planets
In a lengthy article published today, Monday, a scientific magazine sheds light on the set of messages included by the US space agency "NASA" on board its vehicles, especially the new "Lucy Mission" spacecraft, which will carry recorded messages of famous public figures, revealing who the agency targeted with its messages.
In the seventies of the last century, NASA launched four spacecraft with flights that were considered the first of their kind in history outside our solar system, and they were the first human-made devices to go out into the unknown space.
According to the article published in the scientific journal "scitechdaily", the four vehicles or probes carried messages on board, in the form of electronic boards and records, targeting at that time any non-human astronauts who might find these spacecraft one day in the future.
A new vehicle will carry a video message recorded to the "Trojan" asteroids
According to the sources, the new "NASA" spacecraft, which is called "Lucy Mission", which will begin its adventure outside our solar system, will carry video files of public figures.
The "Lucy" spacecraft is targeting a group of "mysterious" asteroids in our solar system for the first time in history, called "Trojan" asteroids.
Astronomers call "Trojan" planets or "Trojan horses" the small asteroids or moons that accompany a larger planet or moon as it orbits the sun.
A group of Trojan asteroids that will be targeted by the "Lucy Mission" spacecraft are located in an area where a mysterious group of "Trojans" have been trapped between Jupiter and the Sun.
Since these asteroids have not been explored before, they are in many ways "fossils" or "fossils" that carry among their stones some of the secrets of the universe and the formation of planets.
“Lucy Mission” a message that began 3 million years ago addressed to an “unknown universe”
The new spacecraft was named "Lucy Mission" in honor of a fossil bearing this name, and it consists of several hundred bone fragments that together make up 40% of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis, who lived and died 3.2 million years ago, which was discovered a year after the start of the mission. Pioneer 11's expedition outside the solar system in 1973.
"Lucy Mission"... continues her journey alone in a world of mystery
The article noted that, after the “Lucy Mission” vehicle completed its primary mission, by visiting the largest number of asteroids in 2033 (8 asteroids in 6 independent orbits around the sun), the spacecraft will continue to travel between Trojan asteroids and the Earth’s orbit for hundreds of thousands or millions the years.
A "time capsule" carries "impressive" messages to an "other world"
And the "Lucy Mission" team chose to put a "time capsule" aboard the Lucy Mission spacecraft in the form of an electronic board carrying recorded messages, but this time not for the unknown aliens, but for those who will come after us from humans.
According to the sources, this "time capsule" contains messages from prominent members of the community.
"These thought leaders were asked to provide words of advice, words of wisdom, words of joy and words of inspiration to those who might read this painting in the distant future," the article read.
These letters were requested from Nobel laureates in literature, American poets and other inspirational figures including members of the troupe who indirectly inspired the craft's nickname "Lucy Mission".
NASA is putting this time capsule on a special electronic chip, hoping that space exploration will continue, and astronomers may one day travel between planets and retrieve this spacecraft as an artifact similar to the skeletal remains of the "Lucy Mission" but with a message to the future.
#LucyMission will fly by 8 asteroids over 12 years. But then what?
— Lucy Mission (@LucyMission) July 22, 2021
After her final asteroid encounter in 2033, Lucy will continue orbiting the Sun, traveling back and forth between Jupiter's Trojan asteroids and Earth, over and over on a stable path for up to 2 million years! pic.twitter.com/YPONaNpS7O
