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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million.

Eros is 21 miles long and 8 miles thick -- a mini planet! Explore the mission that landed on this asteroid after orbiting it for a year!

An archive of stories, image collections and multimedia files produced by SPACE.com during NEAR ...

Boulders seen on asteroid JHU/APL RELEASE Posted: May 17, 2000 Asteroid Eros. Photo: JHU/APL Low-orbit images of Eros taken by NEAR Shoemaker have shown an amazing abundance of boulders of all sizes strewn across the asteroid's surface. This image was taken on May 14, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles). The scene is about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) across and includes ...

Science Update June 1, 2000 NEAR Shoemaker continues its detailed exploration of Eros from 50 km orbit, a process which resembles in some ways an archaeological expedition. We have to map our site globally, pick through it carefully to find any interesting specimens, study some of these in detail back in the laboratory, and then attempt a synthesis and a placing of results in context. To date, ...