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The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft - Artist view

by

S.Numazawa/Apb/Novapix

Reference

e-son13-00001

Date

2006-12-10

The NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendez-vous) in orbit around Eros. The spacecraft designed to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros, then Mathilde ; it was launched in February 1996 and its mission ended in February 2001.