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This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.

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Mission Websites

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IRAS

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was a mission with joint execution by the United States (NASA), the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The goal of this mission was to perform unbiased, all sky survey 12, 25, 60 and 100 microns. IRAS detected about 350,000 infrared sources which increased the number of cataloged astronomical sources by nearly 70%, IRAS discoveries included a disk of dust grains around the star Vega and six new comets.

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Related Datasets

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