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Now Showing: Asteroid 433 Eros, in Color" If NASA had its own marquee, this is how it might announce a recent visualization project by scientists in its Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Using more than 8 million surface observations gathered by the space agency's NEAR Laser Rangefinder (NLR) imaging device, the Goddard visualization team generated a detailed 3D representation of the near-Earth asteroid Eros. In this view, a false-color map depicts gravity slope, which is the angle of ...