NASA’s GUSTO balloon telescope has launched from Antarctica on December 31st. The far-infrared observatory carries out the first large-scale survey with velocity-resolved imaging of the spectral lines emitted by three cosmic elements between stars. GUSTO is equipped with three 8-pixel cameras. SRON and TU Delft made one of those and contributed to the other two.
Month: December 2023
Michael Wise appointed for second term as SRON director
NWO-I has appointed Michael Wise for a second five-year term as director of SRON. During his first five years, Wise has led the relocation of SRON’s headquarters from Utrecht to Leiden and several space missions came to fruition.
‘Netherlands can now make a large difference: measuring methane to local scale’
The Netherlands is now able to make a big impact on the inventory of the greenhouse gas methane released into the atmosphere by humans. And consequently, in the understanding of where we can most rapidly address this worldwide. Atmospheric scientist Jochen Landgraf, principal investigator for the TANGO mission, knows what we need to do, why now is the time, and why especially the Netherlands should do it now.
