NASA's Infrared Survey Explorer is identified by the mission and company logos affixed to the outside of the transportation canister.

At the Astrotech payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is clearly identified by the mission and company logos affixed to the outside of the transportation canister in which it is enclosed for the its move to Space Launch Complex 2.

WISE will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, creating a cosmic clearinghouse of hundreds of millions of objects which will be catalogued and provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the universe. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Dec. 9. For additional information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/wise. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Liberotti, VAFB