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Images of Eros are favorites on all types of Greco-Roman objects. The youthful god of love, Eros (known in the Roman world as Amor or Cupid), who is recognized from his wings, is portrayed on scores of Greek vases and statuettes. Small vases such as these were made to hold perfumed oils and were often deposited in tombs along with the person who was buried there. In the statuette Eros holds a large torch, on the center vase he carries a fillet or ribbon as present, and on the left hand vase he holds a large chest, perhaps for jewelry. On the lekythos, Eros sits casually on a pile of rocks and holds up a large basket or pyxis in his right hand. Such real objects were part of a woman's toilette and were ... buried with her.
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Eros Group is an the escalating & masterly managed company that made is track in this field in the year 1991. The company its pledged to manufacturer, export & import of all kinds of textile machinery, yarn, fibers, garments & home furnishing.
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![[NEAR encounter image of asteroid Eros]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/e/r/o/eros/i/008.gif)
The NEAR camera's ability to show details of Eros's surface is limited by the spacecraft's distance from the asteroid. That is, the closer the spacecraft is to the surface, the more that details are visible. However mission scientists regularly use computer processing to squeeze an extra measure of information from returned data. In a technique known as "superresolution", many images of the same scene acquired at very, very slightly different camera pointing are carefully overlain and processed to bright out details even smaller than would normally be visible. In this rendition constructed out of 20 image frames acquired Feb. 12, 2000, the images have first been enhanced ("high-pass filtered") to accentuate small-scale details. Superresolution was then used to bring out features below the normal ability of the camera to resolve.
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This incredible picture of Eros, taken on February 14, 2000, shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. In this mosaic, constructed from two images taken after the NEAR spacecraft was inserted into orbit, features as small as 120 feet (35 meters) across can be seen. House-sized boulders are present in several places; one lies on the edge of the giant crater separating the two ends of the asteroid. A bright patch is visible on the asteroid in the top left-hand part of this image, and shallow troughs can be see just below this patch. The troughs run parallel to the asteroid's long dimension. (Courtesy of NASA/JHU-APL)
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In art, Eros was usually depicted as a nude winged boy or infant (although this is associated more with Cupid from Roman religion; to the Greeks he was a young man or a teenager), with his bow and arrows in hand. He had two kinds of arrows: one was golden with dove feathers that caused instant love; the other was lead with owl feathers that caused indifference. Sometimes, Eros is depicted with a blindfold or blinded because of the saying, "Love is blind." The poet Sappho described him as "bittersweet" and "cruel" to his victims; he was ... unscrupulous, mischievous and charismatic. In his ancient identification with Protogones and Phanes he was adorned represented as a bull, a serpent, a lion, and with the heads of a ram.
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This image, showing an oblique view of Eros' large central crater, was taken at a resolution of about 20 meters (65 feet) per pixel. The brightness or albedo patterns on the walls of this crater are clearly visible, with the brighter materials near the tops of the walls and darker materials on the lower walls. Boulders are seen inside this crater and the smaller nearby craters. The higher density of craters to the left of the large crater implies that this region is older than the smoother area seen associated with the saddle region on the opposite side of the asteroid. (Courtesy of NASA/JHU-APL)
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