[meteorite-list] NEAR Shoemaker Image Of The Day - January 29, 2001
From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:42:06 2004 Message-ID: <200101291751.JAA15735_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> NEAR image of the day for 2001 Jan 29 http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010129/ Lowest Altitude Diversity NEAR Shoemaker took this picture at 8:45 p.m. EST on January 25, 2001, during one of the spacecraft's low-altitude passes over the surface of Eros. The distance to the center of the picture is only 9 kilometers (5.6 miles), so the entire scene is a mere 340 meters (1,120 feet) across. At this scale, we can distinguish features less than 2 meters across. The asteroid's surface appears nearly devoid of obvious craters and is instead dominated by small boulders. In the upper left part of the image, a smooth deposit with a lower density of boulders is in contrast to the very rough-textured material seen at the lower right. -------------------------------------------------------- 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 29 Jan 2001 12:51:44 PM PST |
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