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Eros March Movie Marathon, Part 2
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On March 15, 2000, the imager on the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft acquired a series of four movies showing different parts of Eros from an altitude of 204 kilometers (127 miles). Each part of the asteroid was captured under changing lighting conditions to bring out details in surface morphology. This second movie shows the western part of the "saddle." The relatively low density of superimposed impact craters indicates this part of Eros was geologically modified relatively late in Eros' history. A concentration of large boulders, each about 50 meters (165 feet) across, dominates the saddle's rim. The Universal Time (UT) of acquisition of each image and the corresponding sub-spacecraft latitude and longitude on Eros are indicated at the bottom of the frame.(Images 0128512626-0128517840)
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Built and managed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel,
Maryland, NEAR-Shoemaker was the first spacecraft launched in NASA's Discovery Program
of low-cost, small-scale planetary missions. See the
NEAR web site for more details.
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