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The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft - Artist view

author: S.Numazawa/Apb/Novapix

reference: e-son13-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 15 cm

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.

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Keywords for this photo:

1998 - ASTEROID - ASTRONOMY - EROS - ILLUSTRATION - NEAR - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -