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Flyover of asteroid Eros

JHU/APL IMAGES
Posted: March 28, 2000

Eros

On March 7, the imager on the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft acquired the first of several planned "flyover movies" of Eros. This one shows the "saddle" region from a range of 205 kilometers (127 miles). Source video: JHU/APL (142k file).

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