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Science 20 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5516, pp. 488 - 491
DOI: 10.1126/science.1058330
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Laser Altimetry of Small-Scale Features on 433 Eros from NEAR-Shoemaker
Andrew F. Cheng,1*
Olivier Barnouin-Jha,1
Maria T. Zuber,23
Joseph Veverka,4
David E. Smith,3
Gregory A. Neumann,2
Mark Robinson,5
Peter Thomas,4
James B. Garvin,3
Scott Murchie,1
Clark Chapman,6
Louise Prockter1
During the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
(NEAR)-Shoemaker's low-altitude flyover of asteroid 433 Eros,
observations by the NEAR Laser Rangefinder (NLR) have helped to
characterize small-scale surface features. On scales from meters to
hundreds of meters, the surface has a fractal structure with roughness
dominated by blocks, structural features, and walls of small craters.
This fractal structure suggests that a single process, possibly
impacts, dominates surface morphology on these scales.
1 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, USA.
2 Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary
Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
3 Earth Sciences Directorate, NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
4 Space Sciences Building, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
5 Department of Geological
Sciences, 309 Locy Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
6 Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut
Street, Suite 426, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.
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To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
andrew.cheng{at}jhuapl.edu
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312, 1344-1347
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