Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Artist's Concept of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Original Caption Released with Image:
Artist's concept of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

A new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe.

Called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the mission has been approved to proceed into the preliminary design phase as the next in NASA's Medium-class Explorer program of lower cost, highly focused, rapid-development scientific spacecraft. It is scheduled to launch in 2008.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Spacecraft:
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Instrument:
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Product Size:
720 samples x 720 lines
facet_what:
Explorer
facet_what:
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
facet_what:
WISE
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
2008
facet_when_year:
2008
Image #:
PIA06927
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA06927
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Artist's Concept of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)