Image of the asteroid Dimorphos (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Image of the asteroid Dimorphos

Caption

Image of the asteroid Dimorphos, with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).

Credit

Credits: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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License

Public Domain

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