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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech campus on Wilson Avenue in Pasadena.

Information Processing Center, JPL's computing center on Woodbury Avenue in Pasadena.

(Obsolete. See IND) JPL's Interplanetary Network and Information Systems Directorate, formerly TMOD.

Infrared, meaning "below red" radiation. Electromagnetic radiation in the neighborhood of 100 micrometers wavelength.

Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

A meteorite that is composed mainly of iron mixed with smaller amounts of nickel.

A galaxy with no spiral structure and no symmetric shape. Irregular galaxies are usually filamentary or very clumpy in shape.

A satellite that orbits a planet far away with an orbit that is eccentric and inclined. They also tend to ...

Interstellas medium.

International Standards Organization.