NASA's NEOWISE Mission: From Asteroid-Hunting to Earth's Atmosphere
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NASA's NEOWISE mission, which has been hunting for asteroids and comets for over a decade, is expected to come to an end by 2025. The mission's space telescope, part of the WISE spacecraft, will be dragged out of orbit by solar activity and burn up in Earth's atmosphere. NEOWISE has made significant discoveries, including 215 asteroids and comets, but the rising phase of the solar cycle is causing the telescope to spiral back towards Earth with no means to keep it in orbit.
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