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Season 50 · Episode 2
Landed Wed, 8 Feb 2023 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 50, Episode 2 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S50E02Star Chasers of SenegalA NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 million miles from Earth thought to hold important clues about the origins of our solar system. Just hours before, in Senegal, West Africa, a team of scientists sets out to capture extraordinarily precise observations vital to the success of the Lucy mission – crucial data needed to help NASA navigate Lucy to its asteroid targets across millions of miles of space. The team's visionary leader, Senegalese astronomer Maram Kaire, takes viewers on a journey to investigate his nation's rich and deep history of astronomy, reaching back thousands of years – and the promising future ahead.
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