Eros:
An Eraser Mark |
PIA03132
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Shoemaker captured this amazing picture of adjacent regions in different
states of surface degradation on January 7, 2001, from an orbital altitude
of 35 km. |
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Image
Credit: Johns
Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA. |
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upper half and lower right parts of the image show surfaces with "typical"
rounded craters and large boulders. However, the abruptly edged swath extending
from lower left to middle right is remarkably more smooth, subdued, and
lacking in small-scale detail of any type -- almost as if Eros had been
altered by a giant eraser. The whole scene is about 1.4 km across. |
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