Lowest Altitude Diversity

NEAR Shoemaker took this picture at 8:45 p.m. EST on January 25, 2001, during one of the spacecraft's low-altitude passes over the surface of Eros.
********************* Added items of interest ********************* Average = 392.638 / Pixel average Standard-Deviation = 89.876 / Pixel standard-deviation Minimum = 163 / Pixel minimum Maximum = 701 / Pixel maximum Filter Wavelength = '760BP20 ' / Filter center/width (nm) Ephemeris Time = 33745584.880 / Barycentric Dynamical(Sec) Orbit Number = -1 / EROS Orbit Number ************* Image Record Header ************* Compression Flag = 1 / (compression_flag) *** MSI Housekeeping Header in tlm order, except items above *** +28V Camera Current = 101.0 / (scaled) Filt Whl SW Position= 3 / (filter_sw_position) Filt Whl Fid. Mask = 15 / (filter_fiducial_mask) DPU DC/DC Temp = 15.6 / (scaled) Camera Temperature = 20.6 / (scaled) Filt Whl. Power = 0 / (filter_power_on_off) Filt Whl. Energize = 0 / (filter_energize_on_off) Rec 4 Telem Config = 2 / (record_4_telem_config) Rec 5 Telem Config = 0 / (record_5_telem_config) Last Filt Whl Comnd.= 0 / (last_filter_command) Repeating Sequences = 0 / (repeating_sequences) Filt Whl Cmnd Pos. = 3 / (filter_wheel_position) Filt Whl Motor Power= 4 / (filter_wheel_motor) Filt Wheel LED Pwr = 2 / (filter_wheel_led_pwr) Filt Wheel P T Thrs = 4 / (filter_wheel_led_thr) Filt Wheel Fiducial = 11 / (filter_wheel_fiducials) Active CTP = 0 / (active_ctp) Maximum Pixel Value = 673 / (max_pixel_value) Expsr Time Mode Cmnd= 0 / (exposure_tm_md_cmd_echo) Expsr Time Para Cmnd= 999 / (exposure_time_param
December 1, 2017
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NEAR Shoemaker took this picture at 8:45 p.m. EST on January 25, 2001, during one of the spacecraft's low-altitude passes over the surface of Eros. The distance to the center of the picture is only 9 kilometers (5.6 miles), so the entire scene is a mere 340 meters (1,120 feet) across. At this scale, we can distinguish features less than 2 meters across. The asteroid's surface appears nearly devoid of obvious craters and is instead dominated by small boulders. In the upper left part of the image, a smooth deposit with a lower density of boulders is in contrast to the very rough-textured material seen at the lower right.