Eros: at Closest Approach PIA03118
Eros10 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.  

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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