Asteroid Gaspra

A montage of images taken by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew by the asteroid Gaspra on 29 October 1991. It shows Gaspra growing progressively larger in the field of view of Galileo's solid-state imaging camera as the spacecraft approached the asteroid. Sunlight is coming from the right.

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NASA/JPL

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