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Images & Animations
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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.
A rotating view of the asteroid Eros, where the colors represent the gravity slope measured by NEAR. This is the high definition version, with grid lines every 15 degrees.
Metadata
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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