Astronomy Picture of the Day offers the last photo taken by NEAR-Shoemaker before its touchdown on the asteroid Eros.

NEAR Shoemaker's representative-color image of Eros reveals the asteroid's patches of regolith, an unusual surface dust.

Image from Astronomy Picture of the Day features the asteroid Eros, with the NEAR-Shoemaker touchdown site highlighted.

Offers an article, photos and a short video clip of Eros, a large asteroid that passes relatively close to the Earth in its orbit.

Enjoy an eight-frame animation based on images of the first known double asteroid, 90 Antiope. Includes a description of the phenomenon.

Analyze an image taken from NEAR-Shoemaker of the asteroid Eros. Shows surface details, including the asteroid's cratered regions.

View two detailed images of the asteroid Eros, taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft. Features as small as 6 meters across are visible.

Mosaic of images from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft reveals the surface details of the asteroid Eros. View its rocks, craters and boulders.

Get up close and personal in this photo of the asteroid Eros, taken from the NEAR Shoemaker at an altitude of fifty kilometers.

Image taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft reveals two large, overlapping impact craters on the horizon of the asteroid Eros.

Photo taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft captures a horizon view of the asteroid Eros. View features as small as 13 feet across.

Check out a bright meteor trail, photographed by Wally Pacholka from the Joshua Tree National Park during the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower.

Map of Eros, constructed of images taken by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, features the proposed names for the asteroid's geographical features.

See photos and animated sequences depicting the flyby of the asteroid Mathilde by the NEAR space probe.

NASA's NEO program provides these color images of the asteroid Ida and its moon Dactyl, taken on August 28, 1993. Join the NEO mailing list.