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The Last Global Rotation Movie
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Two days after NEAR Shoemaker began its orbit of Eros, the spacecraft captured this rotation movie as it moved closer to the asteroid. Although a number of movies have appeared on the NEAR Web site showing all manners of fascinating surface features, this was the last taken at a great enough distance to capture the full illuminated part of the asteroid in each frame. The movie shows a full rotation on February 16, 2000, as viewed from a range of about 340 kilometers (211 miles). It nicely captures the relationship of the two major landforms, the saddle and the 5.3-kilometer (3.3-mile) diameter crater, to the rest of Eros.(Product of images 0126105943, 0126106005, 0126106067, 0126106129, 0126106733, 0126106795, 0126106857, 0126106919, 0126107523, 0126107585,0126107647, 0126107709, 0126108375, 0126108437, 0126108499, 0126109165, 0126109227, 0126109289, 0126109351, 0126109955, 0126110017, 0126110079, 0126110141, 0126110683, 0126110745, 0126110807, 0126110869, 0126110931, 0126111473, 0126111535, 0126111597, 0126111659, 0126111721, 0126112263, 0126112325, 0126112387, 0126112449, 0126112511, 0126112991, 0126113053, 0126113177, 0126113239, 0126113301,0126113781, 0126113967, 0126114029, 0126114091, 0126114571, 0126114633, 0126114695, 0126114757, 0126114819, 0126114881, 0126115423,0126115485, 0126115547, 0126115609, 0126116213, 0126116275, 0126116337, 0126116399, 0126117065, 0126117127, 0126117189, 0126117855, 0126117917, 0126117979, 0126118041, 0126118645, 0126118707, 0126118769, 0126118831, 0126119435, 0126119497, 0126119559, 0126119621, 0126120163, 0126120225, 0126120287, 0126120349, 0126120411, 0126120953, 0126121015, 0126121077, 0126121139, 0126121201, 0126121805, 0126121867, 0126121929, 0126121991, 0126122533, 0126122595, 0126122657, 0126122719, 0126122781, 0126123447, 0126123509, 0126124237, 0126124299)
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Maryland, NEAR-Shoemaker was the first spacecraft launched in NASA's Discovery Program
of low-cost, small-scale planetary missions. See the
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