Neowise: NASA’s Infrared Space Telescope Project and Near-Earth Object Survey

2023-12-20 02:16:00

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20 Dec. 2023 09:16 a.m.

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“Neowise” (Near–Earth Object Wide–field Infrared Survey Explorer–NEOWISE) is an infrared space telescope project. of NASA, United States Used to find asteroids and comets. Including objects that may be harmful to the world This equipment has been in operation for 10 years and its duties are nearing its end. By early 2025, the Neowise camera will fall into Earth’s atmosphere and burn itself up completely.

Neowise’s principal investigator and scientists from IPAC, a research organization at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US, said the past 10 years have marked the second life of the Neowise spacecraft. It is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By repurposing the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission launched in 2009, data from WISE and Neo-WISE will be used to study distant galaxies. Including different types of stars Used to search for disks of dust and gas around stars.

Scientists say the NEOWISE mission has examined the entire sky more than 20 times, taking 1.45 million infrared measurements on more than 44,000 objects in the solar system, including more than 3,000 near-Earth objects. In the future, scientists will continue to rely on this survey data bank. Owise There are many Because it is believed that it will help to discover new things.

(Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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