Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
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Launched in June, 1992, The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) conducted the first extreme ultraviolet (70-760 Angstroms) survey of the sky and subsequently began a Guest Observer Program of pointed spectroscopy, that ended on January 31, 2001. The satellite has four photometric imaging systems and a three-channel EUV spectrometer. The imaging instruments were used to complete the sky survey. The spectrometers were used for the pointed spectroscopic programs, which collected data from over 350 unique astronomical targets.
EUVE re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on January 30, 2002.
External Links
- EUVE Gallery of Pictures from The Multimission Archive at STScI
- EUVE Mission Project Home Page from Center for EUV Astrophysics at the University of California at Berkeley.
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(Source: NASA Science Missions - EUVE.)
Citation
Haisch, Bernard (Contributing Author); Joakim Lindblom (Topic Editor). 2008. "Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer." In: Encyclopedia of the Cosmos. Eds. Bernard Haisch and Joakim F. Lindblom (Redwood City, CA: Digital Universe Foundation). [First published November 8, 2007].
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