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![]() NEAR Shoemaker puts Eros into perspective JHU/APL RELEASE Posted: May 9, 2000
This image, taken May 4, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles), shows a variety of small surface features. The whole scene is about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) across. To better visualize the size of the features, a to-scale Empire State Building is inset at the bottom of the image. The shallow, linear troughs in the lower part of the photo (marked by arrows) are 60 meters (197 feet) across. The boulder on the floor of the large crater at right is 30 meters (98 feet) across, whereas the crater itself measures about 800 meters (2,625 feet) across. Built and managed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, NEAR-Shoemaker was the first spacecraft launched in NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost, small-scale planetary missions.
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