Gaia mean reflectance spectrum of the asteroid (433) Eros, shown with black circles, together with ground-based spectra from Vilas & McFadden (1992) and Binzel et al. (2019) represented with a grey and a black line, respectively. Data obtained in space by the NASA NEAR Shoemaker mission (Veverka et al. 2000) during the approach, at a phase angle of between 49 and 55°, and during the flyby at phase angles of 82° and 112° are shown with open diamonds, open squares, and black crosses, respectively.