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#NASA's #NEOWISE mission ends after a decade of cataloging near-Earth objects. The spacecraft, which detected 1,600 new asteroids and comets, burned up on reentry to #Earth's atmosphere a month ago #space theconversation.com/neowise-th…

NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end

Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn’t survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using the spacecraft for planetary defense.
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