NEAR image of the day for 2000 Apr 27
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Nibbled at the Edges The longtime battering of Eros' surface has produced an amazing variety of landforms in which craters overlap each other. This NEAR Shoemaker image, taken April 5, 2000, from an orbital height of 106 kilometers (66 miles), shows some of the features that can result from intense surface cratering. Just to the left of center, several craters have been superimposed on one another to form an interesting, lobed depression. Two craters in the upper right of the image overlap to produce a scalloped-edged depression 1.7 kilometers (1.06 miles) across.
(Image 0130350940)
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