Eros:
Craterscape |
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The
inside of Eros' largest crater, which dominates one side of the asteroid,
was captured in this NEAR Shoemaker image taken on 19 May 2000, from an
orbital altitude of 50 km. |
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Image
Credit: Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA. |
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The
section shown is about one quarter of the whole crater and is approximately
1.4 km across. A cluster of large boulders sits at the bottom of the pit,
and features as small as 4 m across can be distinguished. More boulders
dot the walls, which are also mottled by variations in the reflectivity
of the surface layer of rock and soil, known as "regolith." |
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