{"id":5639,"date":"2010-01-18T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/infrared-hunt-begins-wise-starts-all-sky-survey\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:57:00","slug":"infrared-hunt-begins-wise-starts-all-sky-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/infrared-hunt-begins-wise-starts-all-sky-survey.php","title":{"rendered":"Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASA<\/a>'s Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer<\/span> (WISE<\/span>) began its survey of the infrared sky today. The mission will spend nine months scanning the sky one-and-a-half times in infrared light, revealing all sorts of cosmic characters -- everything from near-Earth asteroids <\/span>to young galaxies more than ten billion light-years away. <\/span><\/p>

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WISE<\/span>, which launched Dec. 14, 2009, from Vandenberg <\/span>Air Force Base in California, will uncover hundreds of thousands of asteroids<\/span>, and hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Its vast catalog of data will provide astronomers and other missions with data for mine for decades to come. <\/span><\/p>

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/span> manages the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for NASA's Science Mission<\/span> Directorate, Washington. The principal investigator, Edward Wright, is at UCLA. The mission was competitively selected under NASA's Explorers Program<\/span> managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL <\/span>for NASA<\/span>. More information is online at http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wise<\/a>, http:\/\/wise.astro.ucla.edu<\/a> and http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/wise<\/a> .
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