The Lucy probe captured an image of the moon’s surface on October 16, 2022, while it was about 6.5 hours close to it.
A report published by NASA on its website says that the image while “Lucy” is between the Earth and the moon, 160,000 miles (260,000 km) from the moon, so it shows a perspective familiar to Earth observers, and is used to photograph the “Photographer” tool. Lucy High Resolution “grayscale”, supplied and operated by the Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Applied Physics.
The image is a patch of 800 miles (1,200 km) wide near the center of the last quarter of the moon. Several well-known craters, including the relatively last Arzachel crater, can be seen to the left of center, and a prominent fissure called a straight wall cutting through the lava plains can be seen in the lower left of center.
Created by combining ten separate 2ms exposures to the same scene to maximize image quality, each pixel is approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.8 mi) sharp.
And “Lucy” is a NASA space probe, which set out on a 12-year journey to study 8 different asteroids, visiting the main asteroid belt and 7 of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which are asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun and orbit before or behind the planet. The probe will fly near asteroids, and the mission will cost $981 million.