PIA03124: An Unusual Perspective


An Unusual Perspective

Caption:

NEAR Shoemaker captured this unusual view of the southwestern wall of Eros' saddle on November 24, 2000, from a 198-kilometer (123-mile) altitude. The camera is pointed west-southwest, looking down the length of the asteroid. The horizon is across the top of the picture. At lower left, the shadowed high terrain east of the saddle blocks the view of the illuminated western wall. The lowest part of the saddle, at the bottom center of the image, is barely illuminated. The dark areas at the very center of the picture and along the right side are in shadow.

Background Info:

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.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target 433 Eros
System Near Earth Objects
Target Type Asteroid
Mission NEAR Shoemaker
Instrument Host NEAR Shoemaker
Host Type Orbiter
Instrument Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI)
Detector
Extra Keywords Grayscale, Shadow
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2001-02-17
Date in Caption 2000-11-24
Image Credit NASA/JPL/JHUAPL
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03124
Identifier PIA03124