urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.near_earth_asteroid_rendezvous 1.2 1.14.0.0 Product_Context NEAR NEAR 2023-05-11 1.2 Shortened Investigation/description. Added targets Earth, Moon, comet.c1996_b2_hyakutake. Removed extraneous external_references 2019-01-03 1.1 Per "Guide toPDS4 Context Products" v1.3, - changed all lidvid_reference to lid_reference - changed target LIDs to new formation rule 2016-10-01 1.0 extracted metadata from PDS3 catalog and modified to comply with PDS4 Information Model urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.near investigation_to_instrument_host urn:nasa:pds:context:target:asteroid.253_mathilde investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:asteroid.433_eros investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:comet.c1996_b2_hyakutake investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.earth investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:satellite.earth.moon investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:magnetic_field.interplanetary_magnetic_field investigation_to_target urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planetary_system.solar_system investigation_to_target Cheng, A.F., A. Santo, K. Heeres, J. Landshof, R. Farquhar, et al., Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: Mission Overview, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 102, pp. 23695-23708, 1997. reference.CHENGETAL1997 Cheng, A.F., R.W. Farquhar, and A.G. Santo, NEAR Overview, Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 19, pp. 95-106, 1998. reference.CHENGETAL1998 Farquhar, R.W., D. Dunham, and J. McAdams, NEAR Mission Overview and Trajectory Design, Journal of Astronautical Science, Vol. 43, pp. 353-371, 1995. reference.FARQUHARETAL1995 Landshof, J.A., and A.F. Cheng, NEAR Mission and Science Operations at Eros, Journal of Astronautical Science, Vol. 43, p. 477, 1995. reference.LANDSHOF-CHENG1995 Santo, A.G., S.C. Lee, and R.E. Gold, NEAR Spacecraft and Instrumentation, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 373-397, October-December 1995. reference.SANTOETAL1995 Yeomans, D.K., Asteroid 433 Eros: The Target Body of the NEAR Mission, Journal of Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 43, p. 417, 1995. reference.YEOMANS1995 NEAR EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS Mission 1996-02-17 2001-02-28 The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to the near-earth asteroid 433 Eros was launched in Feb. 1996 and carried out Eros orbital operations from Feb. 2000 through Feb. 2001. It acquired the first comprehensive, spatially resolved measurements of the geomorphology, reflectance spectral properties, and shape of an asteroid, and X-ray and gamma-ray spectral measurements of elemental abundances from orbit and the surface. The ambient magnetic field in the vicinity of Eros was also measured. On the way to Eros, the spacecraft also performed a flyby of the asteroid 253 Mathilde in June 1997, obtaining image data and a mass determination.