NEAR image of the day for 2000 Oct 27
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Last Stop 'Til Eros Before and after NEAR Shoemaker's low-altitude flyover of Eros, the camera took image mosaics of known landmarks to accurately fix the spacecraft's location. This mosaic, the last such set of "optical navigation" images inbound to the asteroid, was taken in the early hours of October 26, 2000. It is shown here in simple cylindrical map projection, centered near the equator on the 180-degree longitude end of the asteroid.
(Images 0147933526-0147934022)
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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.