NEAR Views the Asteroid Eros ('True' Color)
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.
NEAR views the Asteroid Eros in True Color.
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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 page can be found in the following series:Related papers
Science 289, pp 2097-2101 (22 Sept 2000)
Science 289, pp 2097-2101 (22 Sept 2000)
Datasets used
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[NEAR: NLR]
ID: 65
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- ID: 11833
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