The small dot moving against the background of stars is the first view from NASA's Lucy spacecraft of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit on its 12-year voyage of discovery. Lucy captured these two images on Sept. 2 and 5, 2023. On the left, the image blinks between these first two images of Dinkinesh. On the right, the asteroid is circled to aid the eye.
Lucy took these images while it was 14 million miles away from the asteroid, which is only about a half-mile wide . Over the next two months, Lucy will continue toward Dinkinesh until itsspacecraft systems
and procedures, focusing on the spacecraft's terminal tracking system, designed to keep the asteroid within the instruments' fields of view as the spacecraft flies by at 10,000 mph . Lucy will continue to image the asteroid over the next months as part of its optical navigation program, which uses the asteroid's apparent position against the star background to determine the relative position of Lucy and Dinkinesh to ensure an accurate flyby. Dinkinesh will remain an unresolved point of light during the long approach and won't start to show surface detail until the day of the encounter.in this field of view is HD 34258, a 7.
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