skip to navigation
|
NEOCam’s Electronic Eye for Asteroid Hunting (Artist Concept)
- Click the image above for a larger view
- Full-Res JPEG (1320 x 660) (89.3 kB)
- Full-Res TIFF (1320 x 660) (2.6 MB)
Caption:
The NEOCam sensor (right) is the lynchpin for the proposed Near Earth Object Camera, or NEOCam, space mission (left).
Background Info:
NEOCam is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NEOCam's partners include the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) of the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California; the Space Dynamics Laboratory, in Logan, Utah; Ball Aerospace of Boulder, Colorado; and Teledyne Imaging Sensors of Thousand Oaks, California.
More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | ||
| System | Near Earth Objects | |
| Target Type | Asteroid | |
| Mission | Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) | |
| Instrument Host | ||
| Host Type | ||
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Artwork, Color, Infrared | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2013-04-15 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/Teledyne | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16956 | |
| Identifier | PIA16956 | |
