Jun Saito

TL;DR: During the interval from September through early December 2005, the Hayabusa spacecraft was in close proximity to near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, and a variety of data were taken on its shape, mass, and surface topography as well as its mineralogic and elemental abundances.

TL;DR: Initial findings about geological features, surface condition, regolith grain size, compositional variation, and constraints on the physical properties of this site are reported by using both scientific and housekeeping data during the descent sequence of the first touchdown.

TL;DR: High-resolution images of the surface of asteroid Itokawa from the Hayabusa mission reveal it to be covered with unconsolidated millimeter-sized and larger gravels, indicating that it has experienced considerable vibrations, which have triggered global-scale granular processes in its dry, vacuum, microgravity environment.

TL;DR: Rendezvous of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa with the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa took place during the interval September through November 2005 and the onboard camera imaged the solid surface of this tiny asteroid with a spatial resolution of 70 centimeters per pixel, revealing diverse surface morphologies.

TL;DR: In this article, an ensemble of landmark maps (L-maps), high-resolution topography/albedo maps of varying resolution that tile the surface of the body, are combined to produce a standard global topography model (GTM) with about 1.57 million vectors.