Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey

future Mission
a diagram of the ARIEL satellite

The ARIEL mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) is a space telescope that can detect which atoms and molecules are present in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, looking to identify their temperatures and chemical processes. The mission will include a NASA instrument, CASE (the Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets), which will observe clouds and hazes, and provide a more comprehensive picture of the exoplanet atmospheres ARIEL observes.

Type

Space Telescope

Launch

2028

Target

Universe

Objective

Explore the atmospheres of hundreds of exoplanets (planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun) for the first time
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