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The DARWIN project – An ESA cornerstone candidate mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

C.V.M. Fridlund
C.V.M. Fridlund*
Affiliation:
Space Science Department of the European Space Agency, ESTEC, PO Box 299, NL-2200AG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Abstract

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The DARWIN project is ESA's candidate mission for the search for extra-solar Earth-type planets. Its aims are to survey the closest stars for these planets, and if detected characterise them as what concerns their physical conditions, their atmospheric composition and their ability to host life as we know it.

Type
Part V: Discovery and study of extrasolar planets - future
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 451 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004