NEAR image of the day for 2000 Oct 30

Back on the High Road

With a successful low-altitude flyover under its belt, NEAR Shoemaker has returned to a high-altitude orbit for a month to map the color properties of Eros' southern hemisphere. This will be the last high-altitude segment of the mission. From early December until the end of mission in February 2001, the spacecraft will be engaged in its final stretch of very detailed, high resolution mapping. This image, taken October 28, 2000, looks down the length of the asteroid's southern hemisphere from an orbital altitude of 181 kilometers (112 miles).

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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.