NASA/JPL has released a timelapse movie of the last images taken by the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft as it landed on Asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001. The 64-frame movie starts at an altitude of 5km and ends when the spacecraft was only 128 metres above the surface, and images as small as a golfball are visible.

NEAR Shoemaker's multispectral imager (MSI) captured the images in this movie during the spacecraft's controlled descent to Eros on February 12, 2001. Starting from just over 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface, the camera moves over cracked and jagged rocks, boulder patches, craters filled with dust and debris, and mysterious areas where the surface seems to have collapsed. The final frame, taken 422 feet (128 meters) above Eros, shows features a few inches across. The black area across the bottom of the last frame indicates a loss of signal, as the spacecraft landed during transmission.

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Cheers,
Dan