PIA03147: Final Eros Images: Range 250 meters (820 feet)
Final Eros Images: Range 250 meters (820 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: PIA03147.jpg (35.8 kB)

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NEAR Shoemaker's image of asteroid 433 Eros taken from a range of 250 meters (820 feet). The image is 12 meters (39 feet) across. The cluster of rocks at the upper right measures 1.4 meters (5 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