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 Two spacecraft concepts: left, from EADS Astrium, and right, from Thales Alenia Space © ESA
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The project main steps
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The EUCLID project, is part of ESA's program Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 which is the current cycle of ESA's long-term planning for space science missions.
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Euclid mission objective is to map the geometry of the dark Universe. The mission will investigate the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of cosmic structures. It achieves this by measuring shapes and redshifts of galaxies and clusters of galaxies out to redshifts ~2, or equivalently to a look-back time of 10 billion years. It will therefore cover the entire period over which dark energy played a significant role in accelerating the expansion.
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Latest update 02/05/2013
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