NEAR image of the day for 2000 May 26
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Terrain with a Grain Some parts of Eros are so pervasively sculpted by linear grooves that the surface appears almost to have a grain to it, like wood. On May 25, 2000, the imager on NEAR Shoemaker took this picture of one such highly sculpted region from an orbital altitude of 52 kilometers (32 miles). The whole scene is about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) across, and it shows features as small as 4 meters (13 feet) across. Dozens of short grooves with parallel orientations cross the terrain. One example, the short groove marked by the arrow, is 160 meters (525 feet) long and 40 meters (130 feet) wide.
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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.
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