Eros

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A false-colour close-up of the asteroid Eros shows dust and fragments of rocky debris inside a large crater. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft took the image from about 50 km (30 miles) above the asteroid's surface. The regolith of the redder areas has been chemically altered by small impacts and exposure to the solar wind, whereas the regolith of the bluer areas has been less “weathered.”

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Opposite hemispheres of the asteroid Eros, shown in a pair of mosaics made from images...

John Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA

A false-colour close-up of the asteroid Eros shows dust and fragments of rocky debris inside a large crater. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft took the image from about 50 km (30 miles) above the asteroid's surface. The regolith of the redder areas has been chemically altered by small impacts and exposure to the solar wind, whereas the regolith of the bluer areas has been less “weathered.”

A false-colour close-up of the asteroid Eros shows dust and fragments of rocky debris...

NASA/The Johns Hopkins Unviersity Applied Physics Laboratory