Re: WISE First Images
Every telescope launched gets tested on known targets first, then turned to pure research...
ANyway, it's doing it's job, by way of mapping the entire sky!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20100122.html
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light.
"This is just the beginning," said Ned Wright, the mission's principal investigator from UCLA. "We've got a fire hose of data pouring down from space."