Oct 8 1982
From The Space Library
NASA declared successful the heat-capacity mapping mission (HCMM) launched from the WTR April 26, 1978. Carrying a two-channel radiometer to measure reflected solar radiation and emitter thermal radiation over a 1-year lifetime, HCMM acquired more than 25,000 Earth images during its 2 1/2 years in orbit with a spatial resolution superior to all previous thermal sensors. (NASA MOR E-65178-01 [postlaunch] Oct 8/82)
JPL reported the discovery of the most distant object in the universe: a quasar named PKS 2000-330, more than 12 billion light years away. Light arriving at the Earth from that object started out before the solar system and probably the Milky Way itself were formed. Astronomers from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia began the search 10 years ago, using JPL's Deep Space Network antennas in Australia to pinpoint radio sources that might be quasars. (NASA Release 82-154; JPL anno Oct 8/82)
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