Eros: Lowest Altitude Diversity PIA03136
Eros07 NEAR Shoemaker took this picture on January 25, 2001, during one of the spacecraft's low-altitude passes over the surface of Eros. The distance to the centre of the picture is only 9 km, so the entire scene is a mere 340 m across.
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Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA.  

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.  
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