PIA03145: Final Eros Images: Range 1,150 meters (3,773 feet)
Final Eros Images: Range 1,150 meters (3,773 feet)
Target Name: Eros
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: NEAR
Spacecraft: NEAR Shoemaker
Instrument: Multi-Spectral Imager
Product Size: 492 samples x 392 lines
Produced By: Johns Hopkins University/APL
Addition Date: 2001-02-17
Primary Data Set: NEAR Home Page
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Full-Res JPEG: PIA03145.jpg (41.7 kB)

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NEAR Shoemaker took this image of asteroid 433 Eros from a range of 1,150 meters (3,773 feet). The image is 54 meters (177 feet) across. The large rock at lower left is 7.4 meters (24 feet) across.

Built and managed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, NEAR was the first spacecraft launched in NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost, small-scale planetary missions. See the NEAR web page at http://near.jhuapl.edu/ for more details.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/JHUAPL

Image Addition Date:
2001-02-17