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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows the northeast rim of the saddle region on Eros. Bright sinuous features associated with a ridge are evident as are parallel, closely spaced grooves in the floor of the saddle.
PIA02485:
Rim of Saddle Region on Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows an oblique view of Eros' large central crater. Brightness or albedo patterns on the walls of this crater are evident as are boulders inside this crater and the smaller nearby craters.
PIA02484:
Oblique View of Eros' Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows a cratered region of Eros located at the end of the elongated asteroid. A few of the craters show brightness (albedo) patterns on their walls.
PIA02483:
Cratered Terrain on Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker shows the interior of asteroid Eros' saddle area, taken at a range of 204 km (127 miles), displays a paucity of craters compared to the surface. Boulders are visible throughout this image.
PIA02482:
Interesting Structural Features on Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image mosaic of the large crater at Eros' center was taken on March 3, 2000 by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft. A shadow cast by the boulder near the floor of the crater is visible.
PIA02481:
Large Crater on Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-10 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image of asteroid Eros was taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker on Feb 29, 2000. Many parts of the asteroid have 'grooves,' linear troughs about 330 feet wide and several miles long.
PIA02480:
The Sculptured Surface of Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker
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Two different views of asteroid 253 Mathilde were obtained by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on June 27, 1997. Only a few of the prominent ridges on Mathilde are illuminated.
PIA02479:
Two Views of Mathilde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker
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This image of asteroid 253 Mathilde was returned by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 1997. Raised crater rims suggest that some of the material ejected from these craters traveled only short distances before falling back to the surface.
PIA02478:
Abundance of Very Large Impact Craters on Mathilde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker
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This image of asteroid 253 Mathilde was returned by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on June 27, 1997. The shadowed, wedge-shaped feature at the lower right is another large crater viewed obliquely.
PIA02477:
Mosaic of Mathilde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Mathilde NEAR Shoemaker
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This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde was returned by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on June 27, 1997. Sunlight is coming from the upper right showing a surface heavily cratered.
PIA02476:
First NEAR image of Mathilde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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These color images taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on Feb 12, 2000, show the subtle butterscotch hue is typical of a wide variety of minerals thought to be the major components of asteroids like Eros.
PIA02475:
Eros' Bland Butterscotch Colors
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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On February 23, 2000, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft obtained a sequence of image mosaics showing Eros' surface as the asteroid rotated under the spacecraft; shown here is the stark beauty of the two opposite hemispheres.
PIA02474:
Eros' Eastern and Western Hemispheres
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker is of processed data showing Eros from slightly different perspectives is combined as anaglyphs or stereo pairs. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA02473:
Eros' Global Morphology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image was taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on Feb 18, 2000 as it flew over the shadowed southern hemisphere, looking north at a crescent asteroid Eros.
PIA02472:
Eros Image Mosaic, Looking North
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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Stereo imaging, an important tool on NASA's NEAR Shoemaker for geologic analysis of Eros, provides three-dimensional information on the asteroid's landforms and structures. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA02471:
Eros in Stereo
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This color image taken by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on Feb 12, 2000, shows the subtle butterscotch hue is typical of a wide variety of minerals thought to be the major components of asteroids like Eros.
PIA02470:
Eros in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This picture was taken from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on Feb 15, 2000, while the spacecraft was passing directly over the large gouge that creates Eros's characteristic peanut shape.
PIA02469:
Inside Eros' Giant Gouge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image of Eros, taken on Feb 14, 2000 by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. House-sized boulders are present in several places.
PIA02468:
Over Eros' Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This image of Eros, looking down over the north pole at one of its largest craters, was the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, obtained by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker on Feb 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft's insertion into orbit.
PIA02467:
NEAR's First Whole-Eros Mosaic from Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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NASA's NEAR Shoemaker's camera's ability to show details of Eros's surface was limited by the spacecraft's distance from the asteroid. That is, the closer the spacecraft was to the surface, the more details were visible.
PIA02466:
Eros Details Enhanced by Computer Processing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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In the first hours after insertion into Eros' orbit on Feb 14, 2000, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft took these images from a range of 210 miles (330 km) above the surface. The many craters visible served as landmarks for navigating the spacecraft.
PIA02465:
Eros: The First Look from Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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On Feb 14, 2000, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft was successfully inserted into orbit around 433 Eros, becoming the first artificial satellite of an asteroid.
PIA02464:
NEAR Historic First Image from Eros Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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On Feb 12, 2000, two days before NASA's NEAR Shoemaker's insertion into orbit around Eros, during a five-hour time span the spacecraft recorded these pictures of the asteroid spinning on its axis. This view looks down toward the rocky body's north pole.
PIA02463:
NEAR Approach to Eros - 12 Panel Rotation Sequence
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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This montage shows a selection of images of the asteroid 433 Eros that were acquired from NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft over three weeks from January 22 through February 12, 2000.
PIA02462:
NEAR Road to Eros
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-07 Eros NEAR Shoemaker
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Approximately one day after its first rendezvous burn, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker imaged Eros every 15 degrees of rotation over a period of about 5.8 hrs. At this time the distance between the asteroid and spacecraft was approximately 4638 miles (7730 km).
PIA02461:
NEAR Approach to Eros
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