NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 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 to young galaxies more than ten billion light-years away.
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
The WISE Launch Press Kit PDF and the WISE Fact Sheet PDF.
NASA's recently launched Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer opened its eyes to the starry sky today, after ejecting its protective cover.
WISE is now a little more than a week into its in-orbit checkout (IOC), and all is performing well. The camera was turned on over the weekend and all operations are continuing as planned.
Engineers are getting ready to eject the cover on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which launched from Vandengerg Air Force Base, Calif., on Dec. 14.
Heavens Above now has WISE in their database. You can see where WISE is in its orbit and determine when it will pass overhead where you live.
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
