VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Avast, me proud beauty! - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, me hearties, or WISE, arrr, lifted off over t' Pacific Ocean this mornin' on its way t' map t' entire sky in infrared light. Begad! A Delta II rocket carryin' t' spacecraft launched at 9:09 am EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. T' rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth about 55 minutes later. Blimey! Video courtesy NASA TV. Aye aye! www.spaceflightnews.net