NEAR image of the day for 2000 Oct 06
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And This Just In, From Eros The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft continues its regional mapping of Eros' southern hemisphere from a 100-kilometer (62-mile) altitude. The illuminated part of the asteroid is being blanketed with image mosaics, some taken in color to measure compositional properties of the regolith, others taken from stereo viewing geometries to measure variations in topography. This mosaic, taken October 2, 2000, includes just four of the thousands of image frames being taken during this mapping phase.
(Mosaic of images 0145906610, 0145906672, 0145906734, 0145906548)
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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. Scott.Murchie@jhuapl.edu.