Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Stereo Eros
Explanation:
Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.n…] and float next to asteroid 433 Eros [ http://www.boulder.…], 260 million kilometers away! Orbiting the Sun once every 1.8 earth-years, asteroid Eros [ http://near.jhuapl.…] is a diminutive 40 x 14 x 14 kilometer world of undulating horizons, craters, boulders [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and valleys. Its unsettling scale and bizarre shape are emphasized in this picture [ http://near.jhuapl.…] - a mosaic of recent images from the NEAR spacecraft processed [ http://visearth.ucs…] to yield a stereo anaglyphic [ http://near.jhuapl.…] view. Along with dramatic chiaroscuro, NEAR's 3-D imaging provides important measurements of the asteroid's landforms and structures, and hopefully clues to the origin [ http://near.jhuapl.…] of this city-sized chunk of solar system [ http://space.jpl.na…]. The smallest features visible here are about 30 meters across.
Credit and Copyright:
NEAR Project [ http://near.jhuapl.…], JHU APL [ http://sd-www.jhuap…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
asteroid
keyword:
stereo
keyword:
433 eros
facet_when:
41-13-240
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
STEREO
facet_what:
MPF
facet_what:
Eros
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap000224

Stereo Eros
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