Euclid Mission

Euclid Mission

News: The European Space Agency launched its Euclid spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to chart the history of the universe as far back as 10 billion years ago.

What is Euclid mission?
• Euclid is a spacecraft carrying a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light and a near-infrared spectrometer and photometer to determine the redshift of the detected galaxies.
• The objective of the Euclid mission is to better understand dark energy and dark matter by accurately measuring the accelerating expansion of the universe. To achieve this, the telescope will measure the shapes of galaxies at varying distances from Earth and investigate the relationship between distance and redshift.
• Euclid will create the most accurate three-dimensional map of the cosmos to date, covering more than a third of the extragalactic sky over six years.
• Euclid is named after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid.
• Euclid is a medium-class mission and is part of the Cosmic Vision campaign of ESA’s Science Programme.