Asteroid Eros (Gravity Slope)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NEAR Views the Asteroid Eros (Gravity Slope)

NEAR views the Asteroid Eros ('true' color)

Views of the asteroid Eros generated by data from the laser rangefinder. This false color image shows the 'gravity slope' at various regions on the object. The gravity slope is the angle between the local gravitation field (computed assuming a constant density for the asteroid) and the normal to the surface. Blue is low slope, red is high slope.

Views of the asteroid Eros generated by data from the laser rangefinder. The 3-D model was generated from laser rangefinder data and the color was applied based on color images.

False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 3

Metadata

  • Sensor

    NEAR/NLR

  • Animation ID

    2060

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-0004

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:03:09:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Tom Bridgman , Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2001/01/29

  • Scientist

    David Smith (NASA/GSFC), Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Citation

    Science 289, pp 2097-2101 (22 Sept 2000)

  • Keywords

    Eros, Asteroid, Laser Rangefinder, HDTV

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2000/02-2001/02

  • Story URL

    stories/eros/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular

  • Airchecks

    Computer Graphics World April 2001 pp. 76