... NEAR at Eros: Before Touchdown . ... Credit: NEAR Project , JHUAPL , NASA . Image Montage by Patrick Vantuyne Explanation: On 12 February, 2001, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft gently touched-down on the the surface of Eros -- the first ever landing on an asteroid . ... Frames which overlap were taken by the spacecraft from slightly different viewpoints , allowing Vantuyne to construct close-up stereo images of the surface of asteroid 433 Eros. ... February . ... February 2005 . ... Stereo Eros . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

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... Yu.A.Nefyodov, M.R.Trunin, A.F.Shevchun, D.V.Shovkun, N.N.Kolesnikov, M.P.Kulakov, A.Agliolo Gallitto, and S.Fricano, Europhysics Letters 58 (3), 422 (2002) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 067006 (2004) . ... M.R. Trunin, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, Supercond.Sci. ... V.N. Egorov, V.L. Masalov, Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, M.R. Trunin, V.E. Zhitomirsky, and M. McLean. ... Yu.A. Nefyodov, A.F. Shevchun, A.M. Shuvaev, M.R. Trunin . ... Publications . ...

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... R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D.J. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B.W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D.B. Zucker, 2007, ApJL 667, 49 . ... S.A. Kassin, R.S. de Jong, B.J. Weiner 2005, ApJ 643, 804 . ... I. Near-Infrared and Optical Broadband Surface Photometry of 30 Galaxies . ... Eric F. Bell and Roelof S. de Jong 2001, ApJ 550, 212-229 . ... Roelof S. de Jong 1996, A Suppl. ... Back to Roelof's home page () . ...