Hello Lucy! 👋 NASASolarSystem's #LucyMission captured this image 140,000 miles (230,000 km) from the Moon’s surface on October 16, 2022, eight hours after the spacecraft flew by the Earth during the first of its three gravity assists. Lucy will be the first ever mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, a population of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun. The Lucy team will use the cratering record on these asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system. Image Description: A close-up shot of the Moon’s surface, with craters and craggy mountains curving across the right side of the image, which fades to black. This image shows a roughly 600 mile (1000 km) wide swath of lunar terrain, dominated by the ancient, lava-filled impact basin Mare Imbrium. The Apennine Mountains, the landing site for the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, dominate the lower-right portion of the image. This image was taken with L’LORRI (Lucy LOng Range Reconnaiss...