Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Flying Over Asteroid Eros
Explanation:
What would it look like to fly over an asteroid? Spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker [ http://near.jhuapl.…] in orbit around asteroid 433 Eros [ http://near.jhuapl.…] found out earlier this month when it recorded its first fly-over sequence. The saddle region [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of the Sun-orbiting space-mountain appears to zip past the camera in this condensed hour-long time-lapse sequence [ http://near.jhuapl.…]. The spacecraft was orbiting about 200 kilometers above the asteroid [ http://www.seds.org…]. Movies such as this are scientifically useful [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] for discerning between regions that are naturally dark and regions that have their brightness dominated by shadows. The week before, a bright X-ray burst [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…http://adsabs.harva…] from the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] allowed NEAR's X-ray spectrometer [ http://near.jhuapl.…] to detect [ http://www.jhuapl.e…] the presence of several elements [ http://pearl1.lanl.…] on Eros' surface by their X-ray fluorescent [ http://www.scimedia…] signatures.
Credit and Copyright:
NEAR Shoemaker Project [ http://near.jhuapl.…], JHU APL [ http://sd-www.jhuap…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
Eros
keyword:
Asteroid
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
NEAR Shoemaker
facet_what:
Spectrometer
facet_what:
asteroid
facet_what:
Eros
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap000327

Flying Over Asteroid Eros
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