In today's image, we see the asteroid Dinkinesh which is the first of a dozen or so asteroids to be explored by the Lucy spacecraft which is exploring the asteroid belt. This will hopefully give us a better understanding of these objects which are remnants of the early solar system and may be able to give us a look into the types od materials that formed Earth billions of years ago.

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