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- NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has got extension for two more years.
- NEOWISE will continue its hunt for asteroids, comets and objects that could pose hazard to Earth for additional two years.
- NASA’s prolific near-Earth object (NEO) hunting space telescope will continue operations till June 2023.
- NEOWISE was originally launched as Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission in December 2009. This space telescope surveyed entire sky in infrared wavelengths and detected asteroids, dim stars, and faintest galaxies. It completed its primary mission after it depleted its cryogenic coolant. Mission was put into hibernation in February 2011. These observations were again resumed in December 2013.
- In 2013, this space telescope was repurposed by NASA’s Planetary Science Division as “NEOWISE”, which is being used to identify asteroids and comets throughout the solar system.
Published date : 05 Jul 2021 05:06PM
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