Editing NEAR Shoemaker (section)

===Scientific payload and experiments===
[[File:NEAR Spacecraft Configuration.jpg|thumb|right|Diagram showing location of ''NEAR'' science instruments.]]
The science payload includes:<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Santo |first1=A. G. |last2=Lee |first2=S. C. |last3=Gold |first3=R. E. |title=NEAR spacecraft and instrumentation. |journal=Journal of the Astronautical Sciences |date=1995 |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=373–397}}</ref>
* The Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI), designed and built by the [[Johns Hopkins University]] [[Applied Physics Laboratory]], provided visible images of the asteroid's surface.
* The NEAR IR Spectrograph (NIS) covers a 0.8 to 2.6-micrometer spectral range in 62 bins.
* A three-axis fluxgate magnetometer supplied by NASA's [[Goddard Space Flight Center]] can measure the asteroid's magnetic field from DC to 10&nbsp;Hz.
* The X-ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) is two instruments. The x-ray spectrometer measures x-ray fluorescence on the asteroid excited by solar flare x-rays. The gamma-ray spectrometer is a NaI scintillator with an active BGO shield.
* The laser rangefinder (NLR) is a direct-detection single-pulse rangefinder.