The mystery posed by the Eros maps for the researchers is why the same thing didn’t happen with two other large craters on Eros: Himeros, on the body’s convex side, and Psyche, on the concave ...

It is part of the final approach imaging sequence prior to orbit insertion and is intended to map the color properties of Eros across all of the illuminated surface. This montage shows a selection ...

Milestone Map of Asteroid Eros A Kodak moment for sure, but millions of miles from Earth. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft has reached a photographic high point in its mapping ...