Observations of 25143 Itokawa by the Asteroid Multiband Imaging Camera (AMICA) of Hayabusa: Morphology of Brighter and Darker Areas
Abstract
Asteroid Multiband Imaging CAmera (AMICA) on Hayabusa showed that Itokawa's surface is divided into brighter and darker areas. Brightness may be controlled by space weathering; a darker boulder-rich layer covers underlying brighter fresh materials.
- Publication:
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37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006LPI....37.1671S