[meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Image Of The Day - February 6, 2001

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:06 2004
Message-ID: <200102061703.JAA23887_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

                   NEAR image of the day for 2001 Feb 06

                   http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010206/

                                 Boulderado

          One of the most recognizable surface features on Eros is
          the boulder-filled, concave depression at the
          southwestern edge of the saddle-shaped Himeros. When it
          was first glimpsed early in NEAR Shoemaker's orbital
          mission the area was informally tagged "Boulderado." It
          is shown here in a mosaic of pictures taken June 14,
          2000, from an orbital altitude of 52 kilometers (32
          miles).

          This region has few superposed craters and, unlike the
          main part of Himeros, few geologic structures like
          curvilinear ridges or troughs. Instead, "Boulderado" is
          covered with the densest concentrations of boulders on
          the asteroid, suggesting that the craters that must once
          have populated the area have either been buried or
          eroded by regolith movement. To honor one of the giants
          of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, a formal name of
          Shoemaker Regio has been proposed for this part of Eros.
          --------------------------------------------------------
          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 Tue 06 Feb 2001 12:03:28 PM PST