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Nasa: Cobe: Cosmic Background Explorer

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The Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, satellite began its space mission in November of 1989. Its task was to measure radiation levels from the early stages of the universe. This site explains the mission goals, COBE's specialized instruments, and provides access to data sets that were collected.

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satellite data, satellite images
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infrared and microwave radiation from early universe, space instrument, space research, space technology, dirbe, dmr, differential microwave radiometer, diffuse infrared background experiment, firas, far infrared absolute spectrophotometer, nasa: cobe: cosmic background explorer, space missions
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