Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.n…] and float next to asteroid 433 Eros [ http://neo.jpl.nasa…], 170 million kilometers away! Orbiting the Sun once every 1.8 earth-years, asteroid Eros is [ http://near.jhuapl.…] 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 images from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft [ http://near.jhuapl.…] processed to yield a stereo anaglyphic [ http://near.jhuapl.…] view. Along with dramatic [ http://www.artofcol…st-matthew.jpg ] chiaroscuro [ http://www2.evansvi…s-chiaro.html ], NEAR's 3-D imaging provided important measurements of the asteroid's landforms and structures, and 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. After spending a year in orbit around Eros, the historic Near Shoemaker spacecraft made the first ever landing on an asteroid's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] February 12, 2001.
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Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.n…] and float next to asteroid 433 Eros [ http://neo.jpl.nasa…], 170 million kilometers away! Orbiting the Sun once every 1.8 earth-years, asteroid Eros is [ http://near.jhuapl.…] 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 images from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft [ http://near.jhuapl.…] processed to yield a stereo anaglyphic [ http://near.jhuapl.…] view. Along with dramatic [ http://www.artofcol…st-matthew.jpg ] chiaroscuro [ http://www2.evansvi…s-chiaro.html ], NEAR's 3-D imaging provided important measurements of the asteroid's landforms and structures, and 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. After spending a year in orbit around Eros, the historic Near Shoemaker spacecraft made the first ever landing on an asteroid's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] February 12, 2001.
