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Eros_rotation_Dec._3-4_2000.gif (498 × 390 pixels, file size: 1.71 MB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 50 frames, 10 s)

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Description

NEAR Shoemaker captured this movie on December 3-4, 2000, while in orbit 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the center of Eros. Covering a full rotation of the 21-mile-long asteroid, the movie opens with a look at one of Eros' battered ends and a sweep over the saddle-shaped depression named Himeros. The sequence then includes a view of Shoemaker Regio - the large boulder patch beside Himeros - before swinging over the opposite end and providing a stunning view of a sunset inside Psyche, the asteroid's large, 5-kilometer (3-mile) impact crater. The movie wraps up with a return to the asteroid's heavily cratered tip.

The last three frames of the original NASA animation have been deleted to improve continuity when looping.
Date December 3-4, 2000
Source http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010205/index.html
Author NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Animated image of one full rotation of Eros.

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433 Eros

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