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Location of the NEAR Shoemaker Landing Site

Target Name:  Asteroid Eros
Spacecraft:  NEAR Shoemaker
Instrument:  Multi-Spectral Imager
Produced by:  NASA/JHU
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Cross Reference:  PIA03143
Date Taken:  3 December 2000

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The location of NEAR Shoemaker's planned landing site is shown in this image mosaic taken on December 3, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 200 kilometers (124 miles). In this view, south is to the top and the terminator (the imaginary line dividing day from night) lies near the equator. The landing site (at the tip of the arrow) is near the boundary of two distinctly different provinces, both of which the spacecraft will photograph as it descends. To the south and east (above and to the left) lies older, cratered terrain, while to the north (down) is the saddle-shaped feature Himeros, whose lesser density of superposed craters indicates relatively recent resurfacing by geologic processes.

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