NEAR image of the day for 2001 Jan 10

Dawn of the New Millennium

This first NEAR Shoemaker image of Eros from the new millennium was taken January 1, 2001, from an orbital altitude of 35 kilometers (22 miles). The broad, gentle depressions in the image are ancient craters that have been highly degraded. The picture also shows a few small, better-defined craters, but the most conspicuous landforms at this spatial scale are large boulders. The whole scene is about 0.9 kilometers (0.6 miles) across.

(Image 0153733951)

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