[meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Image Of The Day - February 5, 2001

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:06 2004
Message-ID: <200102051744.JAA17855_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

                   NEAR image of the day for 2001 Feb 05

                   http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010205/

                          Eros Full-Rotation Movie

          NEAR Shoemaker captured this movie on December 3-4,
          2000, while in orbit 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the
          center of Eros. Covering a full rotation of the
          21-mile-long asteroid, the movie opens with a look at
          one of Eros' battered ends and a sweep over the
          saddle-shaped depression named Himeros. The sequence
          then includes a view of Shoemaker Regio - the large
          boulder patch beside Himeros - before swinging over the
          opposite end and providing a stunning view of a sunset
          inside Psyche, the asteroid's large, 5-kilometer
          (3-mile) impact crater. The movie wraps up with a return
          to the asteroid's heavily cratered tip.
          --------------------------------------------------------
          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).
Received on Mon 05 Feb 2001 12:44:31 PM PST