NEAR image of the day for 2000 Nov 22
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Southern Grooves NEAR Shoemaker took this picture of the southern part of Eros' western hemisphere during a color mapping sequence on November 19, 2000, from 193 kilometers (120 miles) away. The lighting geometry brings out the broad, gentle trough trending from the middle of the picture to the lower right. The feature is nearly 600 meters (1,970 feet) across. The density of superimposed impact craters attests to the feature's great age and history of cosmic battering. Several smaller grooves, about 100 meters (330 feet) across, trend left to right above the large trough.
(Image 0150014790)
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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.