NEAR image of the day for 2000 Dec 27

Typically Eros

NEAR Shoemaker took this picture of a rather "typical" part of Eros on December 16, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 37 kilometers (23 miles). This view captures the essential characteristics of a high-resolution Eros image: the area is densely pocked with craters wider than 200 meters (660 feet), but the density of smaller craters is low and, at smaller scales, boulders dominate the surface. The whole scene is about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) across.

(Image 0152371064)

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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.

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