Talk:Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment

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Delete this stub?[edit]

I searched, and this is the only COBE instrument listed in the General Info sidebox that has its own article, and it is a stub. Unless this precise type of instrument under the same name is used in other article-worthy missions, I can see no reason why we'd need to duplicate the information in the COBE article to flesh out this stub.

However, this is not my area of expertise, so I must leave further work to those who either know or can research the subject. Sorry I couldn't do more. Thanks! Geekdiva (talk) 06:08, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree that this should be deleted, properly written, an article on these instruments would make the COBE article way to long, and probably less useful to many readers.Ercannon (talk) 04:16, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

future work[edit]

I took the first steps to working on the article, moving some of the more technical data to a new section and adding a little more info. Thought for future work:

Add a full sky image of the data from DIRBE, there are some online, maybe one appropriately licensed could be found?
Add some information about the findings from this mission. Obviously our understanding of the IR background has improved since then, but it looks like this did provide a big step forward in our understanding, especially in terms of putting limits on the amount of IR energy out there and in understanding interstellar dust.

Ercannon (talk) 04:16, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]