File:Rendezvous with Eros.jpg
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This image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" class="extiw" title="w:NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a>) mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros" class="extiw" title="w:433 Eros">Eros</a>, an asteroid with an orbit that takes it somewhat close to Earth. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed Eros and dozens of other near-Earth asteroids as part of an ongoing survey to study their sizes and compositions using infrared light.
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| current | 03:33, 9 January 2017 | | 871 × 960 (95 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | This image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" class="extiw" title="w:NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a>) mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros" class="extiw" title="w:433 Eros">Eros</a>, an asteroid with an orbit that takes it somewhat close to Earth. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed Eros and dozens of other near-Earth asteroids as part of an ongoing survey to study their sizes and compositions using infrared light. |
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