Hayabusa unleashed a target marker that carried some 880,000 names down to the surface of asteroid Itokawa. Image taken by the low-flying Japanese probe captured the craft’s own shadow cast upon the space rock with the released target market seen as white dot. Image Credit: ISAS/JAXA

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