Asteroid Eros (Gravity Slope)
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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.