print email comment close Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) URL: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov Description: Official site for this NASA Explorer mission "measuring the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky with unprecedented accuracy. This map of remnant heat from the Big Bang provides answers to fundamental questions about the origin and fate of our universe." Find images, background documents, essays on cosmology and the big-bang theory, links to technical papers, and more. Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Astronomy Big bang theory Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Spacecraft) LII Database Information: Record 20950 created by Jennifer English on 03/20/2006 Last modification on 03/22/2006 Published: 03/23/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20950