Eros Flyover Movie Index

Flyover Movie One Flyover Movie Two	Eros from above its north pole. March 2000, - the asteroid's northern summer.	Click the image to see illumination details for February-March
	Eros from above its north pole. July 2000, - the asteroid's autumn equinox.	Five months after the arrival of NEAR Shoemaker, in July, the asteriod will have moved a quarter of the way round its 20 month orbit. It will then be in its autumm equinox position. Its axis will be at right angles to the Sun. The terminator* will pass through the poles. NEAR Shoemaker will by then be orbiting over the asteroid's poles. In the flyover movies taken then, other features will become visible. * Note: the terminator is the line of shadow that moves across a world's surface as different regions pass into and out of sunlight due to rotation.