Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are Nuts www.sciencealert.com

But on Wednesday, the asteroid Ryugu welcomed a special visitor: Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe successfully landed on the asteroid's surface at 21:06 ET (01:06 UTC on Thursday).
The spacecraft captured the images below as it left the asteroid's surface.
Hayabusa-2 aims to be the first mission to bring samples from such an asteroid back to Earth.
The agency's OSIRIS-REx mission reached a much smaller C-type asteroid, Bennu, in August 2018.
The asteroid's surface has turned out to be rougher than expected, however, and debris flying off the space rock can pose a threat to the orbiting spacecraft.