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New Sky-Mapping Infrared Telescope Sees First Light 
Wired | by Lisa Grossman, Science News | Wed, Jan 6
This first image is a good sign of things to come, said WISE mission scientist David Leisawitz of NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It shows that the telescope is in focus and picking up details in infrared wavelengths.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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Well, that didn't take long: The WISE spacecraft (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spotted its first near-Earth asteroid on January 12, 2010, two days before the official start of its all-sky survey. That's a pretty good catch, considering WISE just popped it lens cover a couple of...
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(in WISE Spots Its First Near-Earth Asteroid)
NASA says its wide-field infrared survey explorer, called WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid....
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