PIA03140: Boulderado

Target Name: Eros Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: NEAR Spacecraft: NEAR Shoemaker Instrument: Multi-Spectral Imager Product Size: 1235 samples x 1037 lines Produced By: Johns Hopkins University/APL Addition Date: 2001-02-17 Primary Data Set: NEAR Home Page Full-Res TIFF: PIA03140.tif (988 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA03140.jpg (146.8 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image: One of the most recognizable surface features on Eros is the boulder-filled, concave depression at the southwestern edge of the saddle-shaped Himeros. When it was first glimpsed early in NEAR Shoemaker's orbital mission the area was informally tagged "Boulderado." Image Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL Image Addition Date: 2001-02-17