NEAR moves closer to Eros
With a short engine burn yesterday, NASA's NEAR spacecraft began a gradual descent into a tighter orbit around the asteroid Eros. As mission controllers prepare to activate more science instruments on the space probe, newly released crater counts show that Eros is a very old space rock.
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