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WISE Lifts Off to Map the Sky

Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011
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WISE Lifts Off to Map the Sky
Image credit: Bill Hartenstein/United Launch Alliance

Uploader comment: NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on December 14, 2009 at 9:09 am EST from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. WISE will scan the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images.


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