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The European Space Agency’s Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was an infrared space-borne observatory open to the general astronomical community. It provided sensitive and flexible imaging, photometric, polarimetric and low-mediumhigh resolution spectroscopic capabilities over a wide wavelength range from 2.5–240 μm. During its highly-successful operational lifetime, it made some 30000 individual pointed observations. All data are now in the public domain and can be retrieved from the ISO Data Archive at ‘www.iso.vilspa.esa.es’. A summary of the mission -including some of its highlights- is presented, followed by a description of current activities designed to help the community exploit the ISO archive.
ISO is an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and with the participation of ISAS and NASA.
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Kessler, M.F. (2000). The ISO Mission and Its Surveys. In: Lemke, D., Stickel, M., Wilke, K. (eds) ISO Surveys of a Dusty Universe. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 548. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45553-1_1
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