European Space Agency selects first two "Cosmic Vision" missions
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to help unravel the mysteries of dark matter (Image: ESA, NASA, J.-P. Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées) and R. Ellis (Caltech))
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The European Space Agency (ESA) this week announced the first two missions selected for its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan. The first, known as Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar wind. The second, Euclid, is essentially a space telescope whose primary goal is to study the accelerating expansion of the universe in an attempt to provide an understanding of the exact nature of dark matter.
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