Patrick, Thanks for the image. Looks like a big chunk of concrete floating in space. Ed L --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Just came across this image of asteroid Itokawa as seen from the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa ("Falcon" in English) when the spacecraft was about 70 meters from the surface.
The part I found fun was that the craft's shadow is plainly visible on the asteroid's surface.
More details in tomorrow's issue of News but here's the picture:
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/j/snews/2005/image/1112_itokawa.jpg
Patrick
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