Eros: Location of the NEAR Shoemaker Landing Site PIA03143
Eros05 The location of NEAR Shoemaker's planned landing site is shown in this image mosaic from an orbital altitude of 200 km.
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Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA.  

In this view, south is to the top and the terminator (the imaginary line dividing day from night) lies near the equator. The landing site (at the tip of the arrow) is near the boundary of two distinctly different provinces, both of which the spacecraft will photograph as it descends. To the south and east (above and to the left) lies older, cratered terrain, while to the north (down) is the saddle-shaped feature Himeros, whose lesser density of superposed craters indicates relatively recent resurfacing by geologic processes.  
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