2021 may be the year of the asteroid mission. NASA’s Lucy mission will complete a 12-year journey to seven different asteroids, visiting a Main Belt asteroid as well as six Jupiter trojans, while the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will visit the double asteroid Didymos and demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon for planetary defense purposes.
Click above to listen to part 5 of Fire Clouds and Ice-teroids, featuring Nancy Chabot, Planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and DART mission coordination lead, and Tom Statler, Program scientist on the Lucy mission in the planetary science division and planetary defense coordination office at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Fire Clouds and Ice-teroids:
Part 1: Steve Levin / Juno Mission
Part 2: Christopher Fernandez / Peat Bogs
Part 3: Arctic Report Card
Part 4: Mike Fromm / Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
Part 5: Chabot & Statler / Asteroid Missions
