[meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Image Of The Day - February 2, 2001

From: James H. Klick <jamesklick_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:06 2004
Message-ID: <002d01c08d3f$4645a7c0$1700a8c0_at_elknet.net>

Ron:
At the outset, let me thank you for your continuing and unselfish
contributions to this list. you are to be saluted.
As to the landing site on Eros, can you provide any illumination as to the
process of reasoning that led to the selection of that particular location
for the landing? Purely arbitrary?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Image Of The Day - February 2, 2001


>
>
> NEAR image of the day for 2001 Feb 02
>
> http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010202/
>
> NEAR Shoemaker's Touchdown Site
>
> When NEAR Shoemaker makes its controlled descent to the
> surface of Eros on February 12, 2001, it will do so at
> the boundary of two distinctly different geologic
> provinces of the asteroid. The main image shows the
> touchdown site (yellow circle) on the edge of the
> saddle-shaped feature Himeros. The inset is a mosaic of
> eight images showing the site in the context of the
> eastern part of the southern hemisphere. In both views,
> south is to the top, and the terminator (the imaginary
> line dividing day from night) falls near the equator. To
> the south lies heavily cratered terrain at southern
> mid-latitudes. To the north (bottom) is the interior of
> Himeros, whose lower density of superposed craters
> indicates relatively recent geologic activity.
>
> During the descent, NEAR Shoemaker will take a strip of
> more than 70 images crossing both provinces, some
> showing details of the surface smaller than 10
> centimeters (4 inches) across.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 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 (http://near.jhuapl.edu) .
>
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