. NASA's Mission Lucy, recently seen in news will explore which of the following?

[A] Jupiter Trojan Asteroids

[B] Asteroid “Bennu”

[C] Asteroids Ceres and Vesta

[D] Asteroid “Ryugu”

Answer: A

Notes:

About Mission Lucy:

Lucy is NASA’s mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids. It was launched on October 16 2021.
It is a part of NASA’s Discovery Programme focused on better understanding of planetary systems of the Solar System.
The mission is named after ‘Lucy’, a 3.2 million-year-old ancestor who belonged to a species of hominins (which include humans and their ancestors).
The mission is estimated to be over 12 years long, during the course of which the spacecraft will visit eight asteroids covering a distance of about 6.3 billion km to deepen the understanding of the “young solar system”.

Dawn mission (NASA) orbited Ceres and Vesta the two largest worlds in the belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Hayabusa mission (JAXA-Japan) probed asteroid “Ryugu”

OSIRIS-REX (NASA) spacecraft probed asteroid “Bennu” and collected samples from there.

Source: EPIC October 2021