In this illustration, a mosaic of several of Rubin Observatory’s observation footprints is projected upon some of the millions of asteroids that scientists will find in Rubin’s vast Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset. A few of these asteroids may prove scientifically interesting enough to launch or redirect a spacecraft to investigate them. Before spacecraft missions can travel to small Solar System objects for detailed exploration, researchers first have to know which objects are worth visiting and where they are in the Solar System. Several spacecraft missions (including NASA’s Lucy, whose shape and orbit are represented in this image) are currently exploring the Solar System’s asteroid belt, Jupiter Trojans, and other nearby regions, with the potential to explore new objects detected by Rubin Observatory.