Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Stereo Eros
Explanation:
Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://photojournal…] and float next to asteroid 433 Eros [ http://neo.jpl.nasa…], now over 220 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://photojournal…] - a mosaic of images from the NEAR Shoemaker [ http://photojournal…Other?subselect=Spac ecraft:NEAR Shoemaker: ] spacecraft processed to yield a stereo anaglyphic [ http://faxmentis.or…] view. Along with dramatic [ http://en.wikipedia…] chiaroscuro [ http://studiochalkb…], NEAR's 3-D imaging provided important measurements of the asteroid's landforms and structures, and clues to the origin 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.
Credit and Copyright:
NEAR Project [ http://near.jhuapl.…], JHU APL [ http://sd-www.jhuap…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_when:
February 12, 2001
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
STEREO
facet_what:
NEAR Shoemaker
facet_what:
Eros
facet_when_year:
2001
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap070217

Stereo Eros
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