Planets and Moons ID: 2061

NEAR Views the Asteroid Eros ('True' Color)

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on January 29, 2001

Views of the asteroid Eros generated by data from the laser rangefinder. The 3-D model was generated from laser rangefinder data and the color was applied based on color images.

Portrait Of An Asteroid

For More Information

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/eros/index.html

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Tom Bridgman (GST): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
David Smith (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
Science 289, pp 2097-2101 (22 Sept 2000)

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Data Used:
NEAR/NLR 2000/02-2001/02
Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of this series:
Eros

Keywords:
SVS >> Asteroid
SVS >> Eros
SVS >> Laser Rangefinder
DLESE >> Space science
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons

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