An image of Toutatis taken by China's Moon-mapping spacecraft Chang'e 2. It shows a very irregular surface with scattered rocks and a few craters.

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   Phil Stooke (philstooke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 17:20:22 JST Phil Stooke

   China's Chang'e 2 spacecraft mapped the Moon in support of later landings including a 7 m/pixel global photomosaic. Later it was redirected to fly past Toutatis. This is a composite of several images taken by a small monitoring camera. There are a few craters but as you can see most of the surface is undulating but not obviously cratered. The image is courtesy CNSA who luckily have adopted basically the same image use policy as NASA.