NEAR Views the Asteroid Eros (Gravity Slope)
Views of the asteroid Eros generated by data from the laser rangefinder. This false color image shows the 'gravity slope' at various regions on the object. The gravity slope is the angle between the local gravitation field (computed assuming a constant density for the asteroid) and the normal to the surface. Blue is low slope, red is high slope.
A rotating view of the asteroid Eros, where the colors represent the gravity slope measured by NEAR. This version has grid lines every 15 degrees.
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Bottom
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 0
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 1
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 2
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 3
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 4
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 5
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 6
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Edge 7
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS ISO
False Color (Gravity Slope) EROS Top
Color bar for gravity slope images. Blue correspoinds to 0 degree slope, red is 35 degree slope.
Video slate image reads, "NEAR Views the Asteroid Eros with NLR (Gravity Slope color table)".
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, January 29, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
Science 289, pp 2097-2101 (22 Sept 2000)
Datasets used in this visualization
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[NEAR: NLR]
ID: 65
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