Hayabusa spacecraft (artist's impression) (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Hayabusa spacecraft (artist's impression)

Caption

Artist's impression of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa touching down on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. UArizona researchers Shaofan Che and Tom Zega analyzed a particle that the Hayabusa mission brought to Earth in 2010.

Credit

JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita

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