Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Hayabusa2 SCI experiment images

Hayabusa2 SCI experiment images
Hayabusa2 SCI experiment images Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft recorded these images of dust and rock spraying away from asteroid Ryugu after the spacecraft fired a copper plate into the surface on 5 April 2019. Hayabusa2 later collected a sample from the resulting 10-meter-wide crater for return to Earth. The left image is enlarged on the right. JAXA, Kobe University and collaborators