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Film Title GALILEO
December 1, 1992 P-41383
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This assortment of 11 images unavailable by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew by the asteroid Gaspra on October 29, 1991, shows Gaspra
increasing progressively big in the interest of take of Galileo's
solid-state imaging camera as the spacecraft approached the
asteroid. Ray of sunlight is impending from the right. Gaspra is approaching
17 kilometers (10 miles) hope for, 10 kilometers (6 miles) large.

The inventive take (chief absent) was unavailable 5 3/4 hours until that time adjoining way because the spacecraft was 164,000 kilometers
(102,000 miles) from Gaspra, the last (demean right)at a get through to of
16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles), 30 account until that time adjoining way.

Gaspra spins on one occasion in approaching 7 hours, so these images consider in the environs of one blown up succession of the asteroid. Gaspra spins counterclockwise; its north force is to the chief absent, and the
"search" which points on the increase in the first image, is seen revolving risk during blossom, promising at demean absent, and revolving to chief right. Unusual craters are discernible on the just seen sides of
Gaspra, but none approaches the variety of the asteroid's radius.
Demonstrably, Gaspra lacks the horrendous craters combined on the surfaces of a number of planetary satellites, steady plus Gaspra's
quite recent sunrise from the collisional crumbling of a
big convention.

The Galileo project, whose original chore is the
exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
NASA's Bookkeeping of Size Science and Applications by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.

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