This image was taken throughout commissioning of ESAs Euclid spacecraft to examine that the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument is working as expected. NASA contributed hardware to the NISP instrument. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CC BY- SA 3.0 IGO
Euclid introduced on July 1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It has actually gotten here at its destination about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, a perspective referred to as the Second Lagrange Point (L2).
” We are thrilled to see that the NASA-supplied detectors and other hardware are working as expected and are incredibly thrilled about the clinical outcomes that will be available in the months and years ahead,” said Mike Seiffert, job researcher for the NASA contribution to Euclid at the companys Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Offered these test images, researchers and engineers behind the objective are positive that the telescope and instruments are functioning well. Mission experts will continue performance-verification tests over the next few months before science observations start.
” After more than 11 years of creating and developing Euclid, its exciting and enormously emotional to see these very first images,” states Euclid Project Manager Giuseppe Racca of ESA. “Its much more amazing when we believe that we see simply a few galaxies here, produced with minimum system tuning. The fully calibrated Euclid will eventually observe billions of galaxies to develop the biggest-ever 3D map of the sky.”
For more images and information, see: Euclid “Dark Universe” Explorer: First Test Images
More About the Mission
3 NASA-supported science teams are actively contributing to the Euclid objective. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a department of Caltech, took the lead in creating and making the sensor-chip electronics for Euclids Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. In addition to this function, JPL also handled the procurement and delivery of the NISP detectors. These vital elements, including the sensor-chip electronics, were rigorously tested at NASAs Detector Characterization Lab situated at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI), located at Caltech in Pasadena, California, has been designated to archive the science information. It will likewise supply support for U.S.-based clinical investigations utilizing the valuable data gathered by the Euclid mission.
Artists impression of the Euclid objective in area. Euclid is designed to look far and wide to address some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe: What are dark matter and dark energy?” After more than 11 years of developing and designing Euclid, its thrilling and immensely emotional to see these first images,” states Euclid Project Manager Giuseppe Racca of ESA. Three NASA-supported science groups are actively contributing to the Euclid objective. It will also offer assistance for U.S.-based clinical investigations making use of the valuable information gathered by the Euclid mission.
Artists impression of the Euclid mission in space. Euclid is developed to look far and wide to answer some of the most fundamental concerns about our Universe: What are dark matter and dark energy?
The telescope took an image of a glittering field of stars, suggesting that it is succeeding after a million-mile journey from Earth.
The 2 instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images. The results indicate that the space telescope will attain the clinical objectives that it has actually been designed for– and possibly far more.
The objective will look into some of the greatest secrets about our universe, including the nature of dark matter and why the universes growth is speeding up. Scientists call the force behind this accelerated expansion “dark energy.”
