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Asteroid Eros seen by NEAR spacecraft

by

Nasa/JHU/APL/Novapix

Reference

a-ast02-00008

Date

2006-11-22

This is a mosaic of four images taken by NEAR Shoemaker on September 5, 2000, from about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above Eros. The knobs sticking out of the surface near the top of the image surround a boulder-strewn area and are probably remnants of ancient impact craters. The very faint grooves that run diagonally across the surface in this image may have formed during a collision between the asteroid and a smaller body.