Eros: The Environs of NEAR Shoemaker's Landing Site PIA03141
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This image mosaic of Eros' southern hemisphere, taken by NEAR Shoemaker on November 30, 2000, offers a long-distance look at the cratered terrain south of where the spacecraft touched down on February 12, 2001.

In this view, south is to the top and the landing site itself is just into the shadows, slightly left of center. The length of the asteroid is 33 k
m.
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Image Credit:Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA.