Waspie_Dwarf Posted August 26, 2013 #1 Share Posted August 26, 2013 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space PASADENA, Calif. -- Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.The telescope studied comets and asteroids, counted stars, scrutinized planets and galaxies, and discovered soccer-ball-shaped carbon spheres in space called buckyballs. Moving into its second decade of scientific scouting from an Earth-trailing orbit, Spitzer continues to explore the cosmos near and far. One additional task is helping NASA observe potential candidates for a developing mission to capture, redirect and explore a near-Earth asteroid Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted August 26, 2013 #2 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Didn't follow this one's launch. Great that it'll be used to detect asteroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted August 26, 2013 Author #3 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Spitzer Space Telescope: 10 Years of InnovationTen years after launch, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.Credit: NASASource: NASA - Multimedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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