NASA's asteroid-hopping mission LUCY has captured the first images of its asteroid targets. The images of the asteroids, some of which are still 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft, were captured by LUCY between March 25 and March 27, 2023.
Despite being around three times the average distance between the sun and Earth from the asteroids, and the relatively small size of the space rocks, LUCY was able to catch four of its eight targets, Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus. The images were taken with the spacecraft's highest resolution imager, L'LORRI.
