NASA launches longest mission to distant asteroids, exploring planet formation mysteries (3)

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket with the Lucy spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United States, on Oct. 16, 2021. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched its Lucy spacecraft on Saturday on a 12-year journey to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, seeking to unlock mysteries of the solar system. (Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout via Xinhua)