Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission
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NEO Surveyor, formerly called Near-Earth Object Camera, then NEO Surveillance Mission, is a planned space-based infrared telescope designed to survey the Solar System for potentially hazardous asteroids. Wikipedia
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The Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) is a space-based mid- infrared (IR) observing system, operating at the Earth-Sun L1 point.
NEO Surveyor is the flight mission which originated from the NEOCam mission proposed by Dr. Amy Mainzer to the Discovery Program in 2014.
This artist concept illustrates the NEOCam space telescope, which will survey the regions of space closest to the Earth's orbit, where potentially hazardous ...
NEOCam's primary science objecJves are threefold: – To assess the present-‐day risk of near-‐Earth object (NEO) impact. – To study the origin and ulJmate ...