NASA’s WISE Eye Infrared survey mission
December 15th, 2009 | Space science | No Comments »
Yesterday Nasa has launched Wise -eye mission to begin its survey of space. The spacecraft uses a telescope designed to see light in the infrared wavelengths.
Wise-eye will scan the entire sky using infrared light, it will take millions of images of the objects never seen in history.
This mission will uncover objects which are not seen till now like cold stars, galaxies, some dark matter near earth asteroids and comets. This will help to find out the answers of questions stars galaxies and planets origin.
WISE’s will find near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets, with orbits that come close to crossing Earth’s path. It will find hundreds of these bodies, and hundreds of thousands of additional asteroids in our solar system’s main asteroid belt. this will be done by measuring objects’ infrared light, astronomers will get the first good estimate of the size distribution of the asteroid population. For image gallery visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/gallery/gallery-index.html
