Eros:
Sentinels |
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This
NEAR Shoemaker picture, taken August 6, 2000, from an orbital altitude of
49 km, shows Eros' horizon near the time of local sunset. |
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Image
Credit: Johns
Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA. |
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The
surface is dark because of the oblique illumination, but several boulders
catch the sunlight and appear like bright sentinels on the landscape. The
brightest of the boulders, just to the upper right of the deeply shadowed
crater in the foreground, is about 30 macross. The whole scene is about
2.2 km across. |
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