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Stony surface of the asteroid Itokawa
Stony surface of the asteroid Itokawa. Its general appearance and lack of impact craters suggests that Itokawa is a "rubble pile" of loosely packed interplanetary debris. Hayabusa, October 22, 2005 --- Image by © JAXA/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures/Corbis