Anonymous Coward User ID: 36413624 South Africa 08/25/2013 12:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA spacecraft reactivated to hunt for asteroids NASA will revive the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) next month with the goal of discovering and characterizing near-Earth objects (NEOs), space rocks that can be found orbiting within 28 million miles (45 million kilometers) from Earth’s path around the sun. “The WISE mission achieved its mission’s goals and as NEOWISE extended the science even further in its survey of asteroids. NASA is now extending that record of success, which will enhance our ability to find potentially hazardous asteroids, and support the new asteroid initiative,” said John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science in Washington. [ link to www.kurzweilai.net] |