ARIEL
(Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey)
(planned space mission for exoplanet spectrography)
ARIEL
(for Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey )
is a planned space observatory to perform
infrared transit-spectrography
observations of 1000 transiting extra-solar planets ,
to study their atmosphere .
It is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative, aiming
for a 2029 launch and a four year mission.
It would reside at the
Earth -Sun L2 Lagrangian point .
Note that some past satellites were named Ariel :
Great Britain's Ariel Program of the 1960s-1980s included
six satellites, two of which, Ariel 5 and Ariel 6
carried out astronomical research.
(plan,spacecraft,ESA,exoplanets,spectrography,infrared,L2 )
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIEL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_programme
http://sci.esa.int/ariel/
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/ariel
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Ariel_factsheet
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/project/ariel-case
http://arielmission.space/
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/images/ariel6_images.html
Referenced by pages:
FINESSE
Lagrangian point
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