NASA's Lucy spacecraft just sent home an impressive glimpse of the smallest asteroid target on its 12-year agenda to study intriguing space rocks.
Asteroid Dinkinesh, a mere 0.5 mile-wide (1 kilometer-wide) rock residing in the inner part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter , was captured by one of Lucy's high resolution cameras from a whopping 14 million miles (23 million km) away.
Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-09-13T15:00:28Z
Author: Sharmila Kuthunur
Twitter: @SPACEdotcom
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