NASA's WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17, 2010. The mission has generated more than one million images so far, of everything from asteroids to distant galaxies.

"Like a globe-trotting shutterbug, WISE has completed a world tour with 1.3 million slides covering the whole sky," said Edward Wright, the principal investigator of the mission at the University of California, Los Angeles.



Some of thes [...]

Full story at http://spacefellowship.com/news/art21427/nasa-s-wise-mission-to-complete-extensive-sky-survey.html