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The Mars Face, Eros
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
14 February 2001
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IMAGE: NASA/NEAR/JHUAPL
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A Cosmic
Valentine
On Feb. 13, 2000,
scientists at Johns Hopkins University announced the stunning discovery of a human
heart outline embedded in the asteroid Eros, named for the god of love. The
image was taken by the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker as it prepared to go into
orbit around Eros.
Unfortunately (as the
scientist's may have secretly suspected) the 3-mile-wide (5-kilometer)
depression turned out to be a trick of light, which struck some admittedly odd
features.
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