Eros:
Lowest Altitude Diversity
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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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Credit: Johns
Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA. |
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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
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