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About the Image
- Date
- 2010-09-02
- ID
- sig10-019
- Type
- Observation
- Credit
- NASA/JHUAPL
About the Object
- Name
- Eros
- Type
- Interplanetary Body > Asteroid
09.02.10
Rendezvous with Eros
This image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of Eros, an asteroid with an orbit that takes it somewhat close to Earth. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed Eros and dozens of other near-Earth asteroids as part of an ongoing survey to study their sizes and compositions using infrared light.
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