Examples of use of NEAR Shoemaker
1. NEAR Shoemaker and Hayabusa gathered a good deal of data, but we still don‘t know the exact composition and internal structure of the asteroids they visited.
2. Among the program‘s other endeavors÷ the Near Shoemaker that landed a spacecraft on asteroid Eros; the Mars Pathfinder; and the solar wind collection spacecraft Genesis, which crashed into Earth when its parachutes failed to open on descent.
3. In 2000 NASA‘s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft arrived at 433 Eros, which a century earlier became the first near–Earth asteroid known to man; five years later, the Japanese Hayabusa probe touched down on asteroid 25143 Itokawa.