Eros:
at Closest Approach
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This
image was taken in the early hours of October 26, 2000, near the closest
approach of NEAR Shoemaker's low-altitude flyover of Eros. At that time,
the spacecraft's digital camera was looking at a region just 7 km away,
about 350 m across. |
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Image
Credit: Johns
Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA. |
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Most
of the scene is covered in rocks of all sizes and shapes, but the floors
of some craters are smooth, suggesting accumulation of fine regolith. For
scale, the large boulder just below and to the right of the center of the
picture is about 15 m across. The smallest visible rocks are about 1.4 m
across. |
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