It’s a Wrap: the MIRI
Three engineers from the European Space Agency wearing blue hoods, stand by to check out the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) that recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s clean room in Greenbelt, Md. The silver thermal blanket around the MIRI will help keep the instrument protected and dust-free. The MIRI sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. MIRI has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with wavelengths that are longer than our eyes see.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
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Taken on May 30, 2012