What could be better than landing a spacecraft for the first time on an asteroid?
Top: NEAR’s final image, taken 120 meters above the landing site, shows a boulder (top) amid smaller rocks in a 6-meter-wide section of the asteroid 433 Eros. Bottom: Rocky region captured when NEAR was 700 m from Eros.
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