(NASA/SwRI - Space.com)
NASA’s Lucy mission sent pictures of the beginning of a total lunar eclipse, taken from an unusual angle.
The probe took the picture from space and kept the Earth and the Moon in the camera's field of view at the same time.
NASA launched Lucy last fall to explore one Main Belt asteroid and seven mysterious Jupiter Trojan asteroids that have never been visited before.
The scientists expect that the data collected by the mission will help characterize asteroids and better understand the processes that took place in the early solar system.
During the last total lunar eclipse, Lucy was able to observe it from an unusual angle at a distance of about one hundred million kilometers from Earth.
At the time of the observation, Lucy was almost perpendicular to the line connecting the Earth and the Moon, keeping both celestial bodies in the field of view.
When the Moon entered the shadow of the Earth, the L'LORRI onboard camera took pictures of the entire process and recorded the disappearance of the Moon.
The ship took a total of 86 images of the eclipse during almost three hours of observations.
This made it possible not only to take a fresh look at this phenomenon from deep space, but also to calibrate the ship.
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