WISE: Mapping the Sky in Infrared Light.
WISE is scheduled to blast into space no earlier than DECEMBER 9th, 2009.
WISE is scheduled to blast into space no earlier than DECEMBER 9th, 2009.
Informação
- Fundado:
- March 20th, 2003
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- WISE Launch
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Quarta-feira, 9 de Dezembro às 6:00
Informação geral
- Fundado:
- March 20th, 2003
Informação Detalhada
- Site:
- http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html
- Descrição da empresa:
- WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies.
- Missão:
- WISE is an unmanned satellite carrying an infrared-sensitive telescope that will image the entire sky. Since objects around room temperature emit infrared radiation, the WISE telescope and detectors are kept very cold (below -430° F /15 Kelvins, which is only 15° Centigrade above absolute zero) by a cryostat -- like an ice chest but filled with solid hydrogen instead of ice.
The WISE mission is a survey of the entire sky in four bands of infrared light. It will be carried out by a 40-cm cryogenically cooled telescope in low Earth orbit. The telescope will launch near the end of this year and after a one month check-out will survey the sky until its solid hydrogen cryogen runs out (approximately 10 months). It will cover the entire sky after the first 6 months of the survey. The data will be processed into an all-sky image atlas and catalogue of detected sources. 50% of the survey will be released to the public 6 months after the end of the survey, and the entire survey will be released 11 months following that. The science goals of WISE are to search for asteroids, the nearest and coolest stars, the origins of stellar and planetary systems, and the most luminous galaxies in the Universe.