Waltz by Mathilde
Photograph: Multiple huge craters were revealed in Near's imagery of Mathilde. At the spacecraft's closest approach, resolution was 100-150 meters at the surface of the largest and first C-type asteroid ever imaged. As it whizzed by toward its true target, the Near spacecraft--the first of NASA's...
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