Thursday, 22 August 2013

NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids




NASA Resurrects a Dead Satellite to Hunt Asteroids
Aug 22nd 2013, 20:00, by Andrew Tarantola
18xt4iokriabkjpgFor nearly three years, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite was one of our most potent tools in the search for asteroids, discovering 33,500 of them (more than a dozen of which are potential impact threats) before being placed into hibernation in 2011. But with a new-found interest in asteroid mining, NASA’s Jet Propulsion [...]
    






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