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Low-Altitude Flyover Movie: Oct. 26, 2000
Small: Animated GIF (1.9MB) QuickTime (3.3MB) Large: Animated GIF (6.8MB) QuickTime (12.7MB) MPEG (17MB) NEAR Shoemaker captured this movie of 433 Eros on Oct. 26, 2000, as it swooped from within 8 to 5 miles (13 to 8 kilometers) of the asteroid's surface. Rocks of all shapes and sizes cover the landscape. The smooth floors of some craters indicate accumulation of fine regolith, the loose rocks and dust left over from collisions with other objects. The smallest visible rocks are about 1.4 meters (5 feet) across. The numbers at lower right mark the latitude and longitude directly below the spacecraft.
NEAR Shoemaker's low-altitude flyover on Oct. 25-26 brought it about 3 miles (5.3 kilometers) from Eros' surface, the closest any spacecraft has ever come to planetary body without landing on it. Visit the flyover gallery for images, video and news from the maneuver.
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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.
