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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker: Media
spacecraft
Images
A false-colour close-up of the asteroid Eros shows dust and fragments of rocky debris...
NASA/The Johns Hopkins Unviersity Applied Physics Laboratory
Eros asteroid
Opposite hemispheres of the asteroid Eros, shown in a pair of mosaics made from images...
John Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA
asteroid: exploration
Artist's conception shows the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft orbiting...
NASA
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
U.S. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) space probe in orbit around an asteroid,...
NASA
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