Close-up View of Eros

An image of a potato-shaped, gray asteroid with several craters on the surface.
June 19, 2014
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL
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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.