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Eros March Movie Marathon, Part 3
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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 third movie shows the 5.5-kilometer (3.4-mile) diameter crater that dominates the western hemisphere. Although the lighting in the crater's interior changes markedly during the 1 hour, 29 minutes covered by these images, the pattern of brightness features in the far wall remains stable. This type of behavior distinguishes real variations in surface brightness from mere lighting effects. 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 0128517906-0128523318)
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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.
Feedback to Scott Murchie at APL.