NEAR Shoemaker Stories
A Collision Worth a Thousand Boulders
The first detailed global mapping of an asteroid - conducted as part of NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission - has found that most of the larger rocks strewn across 433 Eros were ejected from a single crater in…
NEAR Shoemaker Ready to Gather Data on Surface of Eros
The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft has been commanded to begin collecting data from the surface of 433 Eros.
NEAR Shoemaker’s Historic Landing on Eros Exceeds Science, Engineering Expectations
The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft's historic soft landing on asteroid 433 Eros Feb. 12 turned out to be a mission planner's dream - providing NEAR team members with more scientific and engineering information than they ever expected from the carefully designed…
NEAR Shoemaker’s Mission Extended by Ten Days
NASA granted the NEAR Shoemaker mission a last-minute reprieve Wednesday, extending the mission by up to ten days to give scientists time to capitalize on a surprisingly successful landing on the surface of the asteroid Eros.
JPL Navigators Guide NEAR to Historic Landing on Asteroid Eros
With fingers flying across calculator keypads as new guidance data flowed in, JPL space navigators yesterday used fast math, and lots of it, to help carefully nudge NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft to its historic touchdown on the surface of asteroid…
NEAR Shoemaker Still Talking from Surface of Eros
A day after its gentle touchdown on the surface of an asteroid - a deep-space first - the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft is still communicating with the NEAR team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD.